viii, 526 pp. Half-title present. Illustrated with 40 etched plates by George Cruikshank, including frontispiece and additional illustrated title. (8vo), finely bound by Bayntun in full red crushed morocco, gilt-ruled borders, central gilt portrait within a gilt oval frame on front, author's signature in gilt facsimile on rear, gilt-topped raised bands, gilt spine compartments, gilt-rolled edges, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom slipcase. "New Edition, Complete", first combined edition.

All plates prior to page 120 without publisher's imprint with all after marked London, Chapman and Hall; 6th line from bottom on page 526 has "reeledtogether". Dickens' earliest published works, first appearing in periodicals from 1833 to 1836. Originally published in two series, the first, in 1836, in two volumes, the second in one volume in 1838. Walter E. Smith, Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth, Part I, p.16, describes the present edition: "When Chapman and Hall obtained the copyright of Sketches in 1837, they published all of them in twenty monthly parts from November 1837 through June 1839. Cruikshank designed a cover, enlarged the plates (except `The Free and Easy' which was discarded), and created 13 new illustrations for these monthly parts. In May, 1839, Chapman and Hall published these parts complete in one volume with all 40 of Cruikshank's illustrations." Bookplate of Norman J. Sondheim.