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DICKENS, CHARLES. Sketches by Boz Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. 8vo (212 x 129mm.), FIRST OCTAVO ONE VOLUME EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO WILLIAM UPCOTT (William Upcott Esquire | from | Charles Dickens | Twentythird November 1841), half-title, etched frontispiece, pictorial title-page and 38 plates by George ...
DICKENS, CHARLES. Sketches by Boz Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. 8vo (222 x 140mm.), FIRST OCTAVO ONE VOLUME EDITION, half-title, etched frontispiece, pictorial title-page and 38 plates by George Cruikshank, those before p.120 without publisher's imprint, advertisement leaf dated May 15, 1839, original publisher's brown grained cloth ...
Backed by Chapman Hall, he negotiated purchase of the copyright of Sketches by Boz, leading to its publication in parts from November 1837. "It is an irrefutable fact that the book first published by an author who subsequently attained great eminence is the most difficult of acquirement in good condition.
The Pickwick Papers. Sketches by "Boz," Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People (commonly known as Sketches by Boz) is a collection of short pieces Charles Dickens originally published in various newspapers and other periodicals between 1833 and 1836. They were re-issued in book form, under their current title, in February and ...
- Charles Dickens
- 1833-1836 in newspapers and periodicals; in 1836 (two series); first one volume edition 1839
- 1833
- Sketches
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May 1, 1996 · Books. Sketches by Boz. Charles Dickens. Penguin Publishing Group, May 1, 1996 - Fiction - 688 pages. Charles Dickens's first book, complete with all the pathos and comic invention of his later masterpieces Published under the pen-name 'Boz', Charles Dickens's first book Sketches by Boz (1836) heralded an exciting new voice in English literature.
