Lot 8
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DICKENS, CHARLES. Sketches by Boz...New Edition, complete. London: Chapman and Hall, November 1837 - June 1839. 20 parts, 8vo, pictorially printed pale pink wrappers, uncut, no. 20 lacks wrappers and is supplied with a reprint of front wrapper, nos. 11, 12, 16 and 18 lack back wrappers (no. 11 has a no. 10 back wrapper, no. 12 has a no. 8 back wrapper, no. 16 has a no. 15 back wrapper and no. 18 has a back wrapper from another work), back wrapper of nos. 14 and 15 and front wrapper of no. 17 slightly defective, back wrapper of no. 7 torn, some severe rebacking, 8 plates stained or foxed; in two green morocco pull-off cases. ORIGINAL PARTS, with all the inserted advertisement leaves and Mechi's catalogue as noted by Hatton & Cleaver, part 20 with numeration of p. 515 centered, 40 engraved plates by George Cruikshank, plate of "Greenwich Fair" without the Chapman and Hall imprint. Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 91-128. (2)

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DICKENS, CHARLES. Sketches by Boz...New Edition, complete. London: Chapman and Hall, November 1837 - June 1839. 20 parts, 8vo, pictorially printed pale pink wrappers, uncut, no. 20 lacks wrappers and is supplied with a reprint of front wrapper, nos. 11, 12, 16 and 18 lack back wrappers (no. 11 has a no. 10 back wrapper, no. 12 has a no. 8 back wrapper, no. 16 has a no. 15 back wrapper and no. 18 has a back wrapper from another work), back wrapper of nos. 14 and 15 and front wrapper of no. 17 slightly defective, back wrapper of no. 7 torn, some severe rebacking, 8 plates stained or foxed; in two green morocco pull-off cases. ORIGINAL PARTS, with all the inserted advertisement leaves and Mechi's catalogue as noted by Hatton & Cleaver, part 20 with numeration of p. 515 centered, 40 engraved plates by George Cruikshank, plate of "Greenwich Fair" without the Chapman and Hall imprint. Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 91-128. (2)