Dickens' London

This selection of Dickens's essays and sketches, taken largely from the 1830s pieces later gathered as Sketches by Boz, describes London as a set of streets, trades, and amusements. Typical subjects include coaches and booking offices, gin-shops, private theatres, a parliamentary sitting, fairs, police offices, and the Sunday habits of different classes. The observer walks, rides, and loiters, recording dress, speech, and the look of crowds rather than following a plot. Later journalism of a similar kind is sometimes included. The volume is a portrait of the capital in short prose, not a novel and not a guidebook arranged as routes.

Quarter bound in dark brown cloth with picture printed brown paper covers. Light brown endpapers. Plain dark brown slipcase. Still in print in same format in 2018.