244pp. Orange cloth-covered boards; black design on front, black titles on spine, bottom text block edges untrimmed. 12mo. Sun-faded spine, rubbed corners and spine ends, mottled boards. Top text block edge tanning, remaining edges starting to tan. Free endpapers foxing; pages just starting to age; gutters strained, volume quite loose. Otherwise. internally neat and clean.
Various pen portraits of characters from Dickens' Pickwick Papers, including an early contribution from John Betjeman on Samuel Weller.