8vo (210 x 131 mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page, 38 engraved plates by Cruikshank. (Some light offsetting.) 20th-century calf gilt, brown and tan leather lettering-pieces gilt, edges gilt, stamped-signed by Bretano’s (some light rubbing, front cover detaching, a few stains); tan cloth slipcase. Provenance: Brian Douglas Stilwell (bookplate). 

FIRST OCTAVO ONE-VOLUME EDITION of The Complete Sketches by Boz. Chapman and Hall acquired the copyright to both series of Sketches by Boz, which they issued in parts with 13 additional illustrations. In May 1839, the series was published in the present one-volume edition (see Smith I:2, p. 16). Gimbel A7.