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Hardcover in publisher’s dust-jacket. 433 pages. With 12 illustrations by Marcus Stone, Samuel Palmer and Clarkson Stanfield. being taken from various 19th century reprint editions. Introduction by Sacheverell Sitwell. Reprint, published separately and as volume 19 of the complete works, this being the stand alone edition. Two of the three non-fiction works [if one omits “The Life of Our Lord”) written by the inimitable Boz, the first famous for its unvarnished and caustic observations of life in America, the second more Byronesque in its appreciation of the bucolic and historical beauty of its surroundings. Ex-library with withdrawn stamp on front free end-paper and no other marks or indication of ever having been in circulation. A clean, fresh, unmarked (but for stamp) copy. Still very good+ in a very good+ dust-jacket