The Collected Home, Featuring Property from a Summer Thornton-Designed Chicago Residence

8vo (208 x 131 mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title, 38 engraved plates by Cruikshank. 20th-century maroon straight-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt (a few minor scuffs lower cover).

FIRST OCTAVO ONE-VOLUME EDITION of The Complete Sketches by Boz. Chapman and Hall acquired the copyright to both series of Sketches by Boz, which they issued in parts with 13 additional illustrations.  In May 1839, the series was published in the present one-volume edition (see Smith I:2, p. 16). Gimbel A7.