SKETCHES BY BOZ PB – CHARLES DICKENS-DENNIS WALDER-GEORGE CRUIKSHANK-DENNIS WALDER

" Sets out the London of the 1830s before you, streets, people, pleasures, low life, prisons Claire Tomalin Charles Dickens s first published book, Sketches by Boz is a funny and touching collection of observation, fancy and fiction showing the London he knew in all its complexity – its streets, theatres, inns, pawnshops, law courts, prisons and, of course, the river Thames. His descriptions of everyday life and people seem to anticipate characters from his great novels – garrulous matrons, vulgar young clerks, Scrooge-like bachelors – while his powers of social critique shine in his unflinching depictions of the city s forgotten citizens, from child workers to prostitutes. This edition includes the original illustrations by George Cruikshank. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Dennis Walder"