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Front. & engr. title with some spotting & off-setting, additional printed title, plates. Contemp. half maroon calf, spine attractively tooled in blind & gilt, black leather label; spine faded to tan. ]A nice clean copy of the first collected edition. 'The following pages contain the earliest productions of their Author, written from time to time to meet the exigencies of a Newspaper or a Magazine. They were originally published in two series; the first in two volumes, and the second in one. Several editions having been exhausted, both are now published together in one volume, uniform with "The Pickwick Papers" and "Nicholas Nickleby".' (Advertisement.).

Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People is Charles Dickens's first book, a collection of stories and essays that had been previously published in various periodicals.