DICKENS, CHARLES. Sketches by Boz.

FIRST BOOK DICKENS, CHARLES. Sketches by "Boz." 2 engraved frontispieces and 14 engraved plates by George Cruikshank. 2 volumes. 8vo, publisher's green textured cloth with gilt spines, few minor spots and rubbing; plates browned, splits between some signatures, a few of which are sprung or loose in binding. London: John Macrone, 1836

first edition in book form of dickens's first book. Smith 1:1; Cohn 232. A Second Series was published in 1837.