Lot 117 , Dickens, Charles - Sketches by Boz: illustrative of every-day life and every-day people, new edition, complete,

Dickens, Charles - Sketches by Boz: illustrative of every-day life and every-day people, new edition, complete, engraved pictorial, printed titles and 39 plates (by Cruikshank), near contemporary gilt ruled black calf with generous gilt decorated cover borders, gilt decorated and panelled spine with maroon label, gilt edges and turn-ins, Chapman and Hall, 1839
Estimate £200-300

Some wear upper cover and slightly on spine, inner hinges weak, pp.175-78 loose, engraved title stained overall and offset on printed title, lacks half title (advert leaf present, p. (v)), most plates with marginal stains (some plt. surface also, a few badly), old armorial bookplate - George Henry Jackson on the yellow endpaper, p.526 'reeledbefore', no publisher's name on plts before 'Private Theakes' (p.129) Eckel pp.14-16


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Sold for £170