Fine Books and Manuscripts

Sketches by Boz and Dombey and Son. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839 and 1848.2 vols. 8vo, uniformly bound in full tan calf, gilt-tooled and -lettered spines, red and green leather spine labels, gilt-inner dentelles, a.e.g. First combined edition (Boz) and First book edition (Dombey). Spines darkened; bookplates Colonel Arthur Hare Vincent tipped to front pastedowns; plates darkened; scattered brown spots.