8vo (175 x 109 mm). 2-page publisher's advertisement at beginning and end. Half-title. Wood-engraved vignette title and three wood-engravings in text by Samuel Palmer. Original publisher's blue blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt (a few pale stains, corners slightly bumped); cloth slipcase. Provenance: John Loames (signature).

 

FIRST EDITION. Dickens's account was first published in The Daily News entitled "Traveling Sketches - Written on the Road"; he reproduced the work in book form as Pictures from Italy, retaining only two of the original twelve chapter titles, and incorporating a number of textual changes, as outlined in Smith. Eckel, p. 126; Smith II:7.

 

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