8vo (172 x 110 mm). 2-page publisher's advertisements at beginning and end; half-title. Wood-engraved vignette title and three wood-engravings in text by Samuel Palmer. (Some pale browning or spotting.) Original publisher's blue blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt (minor wear to spine ends, spine slightly darkened, corners slightly bumped, a few very light stains). Provenance: Lucy Hampey (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; Gimbel A98; Smith II:7.