Sketches by Boz

Complete and unabridged, with 48 full-page plates by Thomas Gainsborough, George Morland and Luke Fildes. Dickens's first book: fifty-six pieces on London — the streets before dawn, the pawnbroker's, Newgate, a christening, the omnibus, Seven Dials — written for newspapers at twenty-three under the name Boz. Cruikshank illustrated them, and the money from the copyright helped him marry two months ...