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He was soon recognised as one of the best reporters. <i>Sketches by Boz<\/i> is a collection of short stories that appeared between 1834 and 1836 in various newspapers, some of which, <i>A Visit to Newgate, The Black Veil, The Great Winglebury Duel<\/i> (first series) and <i>Our Next Door Neighbours, The Drunkard&#8217;s Death<\/i> (second series), appeared here for the first time. The collection was a real success and launched Dickens&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">\u2018It was for the public a delight and a distraction. Dickens, brought to London by his father at the age of two, had had the opportunity from childhood to mingle with all those bourgeois or petty characters who come and go in the offices of solicitors and barristers&#8230;; and all his caricatures, more serious and more pleasing at the same time in England than anywhere else, the ease of the brush, the unpretentiousness of the author&#8230; gave the <i>Sketches <\/i>a very great vogue\u2019. (Duckett, Dictionary of Conversation and Reading, vol. VII, p. 554)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">\u2018It cannot be emphasised too strongly that Dickens&#8217;s work &#8211; in its most characteristic, enormous and fantastic aspects, in its prodigious distortions of reality &#8211; emerged from the excessive emotions and traumas of this critical period, which fixed a whole part of Dickens&#8217;s personality in the emotional modes of childhood\u2019 (see Jean-Jacques Mayoux, Nouveau dictionnaire des Auteurs).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><i>Boz&#8217;s Sketches<\/i> was Dickens&#8217; very first work, which he called \u201ca trial balloon\u201d and whose aim was simply \u201cto offer little pictures of life and manners as they really are\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The work was illustrated by the famous cartoonist George Cruikshank, who, on the title of the second series, immortalised himself in the company of the author, in the basket of a balloon. Even today, the charm of these sketchbooks remains. John Forster described them as \u2018a book that would have stood the test of time even if there had been no others\u2019. The volume of the second series, whose engraved frontispiece is dated 1836, corresponds to the second issue, with the table in 17 lines, and the indication of \u2018vol. III\u2019 at the bottom of the plates erased.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Occasional stains.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Provenance: W. Lewis (signature to first two volumes) and Peter Starckjohann (bookplate, second series).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 volumes, 8vo (200 x 122 mm) VIII, 348 pp., frontispiece and 7 plates for volume I; 2 nn.ll., 342 pp., 8 plates for volume II; 2 nn.ll., VIII, 377 pp., 10 plates including title and frontispiece, 10 nn.ll. of bookseller&#8217;s catalogue. 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