1849 UK Charles Dickens 'Sketches of Young Gentlemen'

Scarce early edition (5th - 1849) of Charles Dickens' Sketches of Young Gentlemen. This pamphlet is a short Dickens work published during the early part of his career, illustrated by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"). It was written as a humorous response to Sketches of Young Ladies by Edward Caswall ("Quiz").

• Table of Contents
• Dedication "To the Young Ladies"  (pages V - Viii)
• Sketches of Young Gentlemen (pages 1-76)
• Mr. Dickens' Works (advertising June 1849)
• New Publications (advertising)
• Chapman and Hall's (advertising June 1849)
• The Works of Sir Edward Bulmer Lytton (advertising June 1849)
• Back cover "Sketches of Young Ladies"..."Sketches of Young Gentlemen..."Sketches of Young Couples

Has five (5) of the six (6) plates. Missing frontispiece.

Printed by Chapman & Hall, London UK

Handmade front cover, rear publisher's advertisement wrapper. Spine partially detached.

17 x 11 x 1 cm

Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 –1870) was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.

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