DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Pictures From Italy. London: for the author by Bradbury & Evans, 1846.

8vo (174 x 103 mm). Half-title, 2 pp. publisher's advertisements at front, title-page with wood-engraved vignette and 3 wood-engravings by Samuel Palmer, 2pp. advertisements at end. (Some marginal toning.) Original blue cloth decorated in blind, spine gilt-lettered (some minor staining, slight wear to extremities, hinges starting). Provenance: Wm. Gyles Fairnik (signature); bookseller's description tipped to front pastedown. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM with all points listed in Smith. Eckel (1972), p. 126; Smith II:7.

[With:] DICKENS, Charles. The Uncommercial Traveller. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861. 8vo (191 x 121 mm). Half-title, 32pp. publisher's advertisement at end dated December 1860. (Some occasional light spotting and minor soiling.) Original wavy-grain violet cloth decorated in blind, spine gilt-lettered, uncut (hinges starting, a touch of wear to extremities); slipcase. Provenance: Tho. J. Dadsforth (contemporary signature); bookseller's description to front pastedown. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, published on 15 December 1860. With all the first issue points called for by Smith, except the dot over "it" is present on p. 192, 3 lines up (not present in some copies), and the spacing is proper in "him" in line 3 of p. 247. Dickens initially published this series of seventeen sketches in All the Year Round earlier in 1860. Eckel, p. 132; Smith II:11; Yale/Gimbel A145.

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Pictures From Italy. London: for the author by Bradbury & Evans, 1846.