8vo (187 x 120 mm). Half-title; 32pp. publisher's advertisement at end dated December 1860. Original publisher’s purple cloth, ruled in blind, gilt-lettered on spine, top edge gilt (discrete repairs to hinges preserving original endpapers, spine sunned, otherwise bright). 

 

FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, published on 15 December 1860. Dickens initially published this series of seventeen sketches in All the Year Round earlier in 1860. Eckel, p 132; Gimbel A145; Smith 2:11. 

 

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The Uncommercial Traveller. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861. 8vo (188 x 122 mm). Original publisher’s purple cloth, ruled in blind, gilt-lettered on spine (lower cover becoming detached, some fading). Second edition.