1869 Sketches of Young Couples, Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

In the publisher's original pictorial cloth with gilt.

This volume is the first collected edition of this work.

Illustrated with 15 plates and a frontispiece, illustrated by Phiz. Collated, complete.

The primary sketches in this volume were originally attributed to Charles Dickens, who contributed especially to Young Couples, but were likely a mix of his work and others writing in a similar comic style. 

This volume is a collection of Sketches of Young Ladies (1837). These are humorous portraits of different "types" of young women in society. Sketches of Young Gentlemen (1838). This is a playful "response," describing the foibles of young men, and Sketches of Young Couples (1840), examining newlyweds with Dickens’s trademark wit.