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by Boz : Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People by Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank, Illustrations

$35,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: John Macrone, 1836. First edition. viii, 348; iv , 342 pp. with all 16 illustrated plates by Cruikshank. Two volumes bound in publisher's green leaf-patterned morocco cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pale yellow coated endpapers. Near Fine, unsophisticated copies with contemporary gift inscriptions on paste downs alongside armorial bookplates and tiny bookplates, discrete number stamps to copyright pages with

• Binding: Leather

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