DICKENS, Charles.
Sketches By Boz.
London: Chapman and Hall , 1839.
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"Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some": Charles Dickens' Sketches by Boz
First edition of this collection of vivid, observational pieces depicting London’s diverse characters and social conditions, showcasing his early talent for satire, humor, and social critique. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt turnins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece, engraved vignette titles. With black and white illustartions done by George Cruikshank. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase.
The sketches of urban life that make up Sketches by Boz first appeared in a variety of London magazines. “What impressed his contemporaries as much as the vivacity of his style was the way in which he was able to chronicle the lives of ‘the people’ even at the time they were first struggling to find social and economic expression. This was how he found his great subject, in crowd scenes, in streets, in the lives of people who are uniquely tied together, for better or worse, and who are part of the city which rises like an hallucination through these early sketches” (Ackroyd, 169).
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