Sketches By Boz Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People.
(Charles Dickens)
London: Chapman & Hall, 1839. viii + 526 pages; with 40 illustrations in black and white by George Cruikshank; Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English novelist, whose general style was virile and direct. He had full command of a nervous English, reinforced by sympathy and humour, by drollery as refreshing as it was unexpected, and by a fierce indignation against wrong...(Chambers); previous owner bookplate on endpaper of William Franklin Mason; bound in full polished leather binding, gilt spine titles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt turn-ins bound by Root & Son with their small stamp on the top inner edge of the front endpaper; red silk ribbon page-marker; boards detached, spine charred and ruined; contents in very good condition and clean; a good candidate for rebacking or rebinding. Good (Item ID: 18639)
$250.00
