Sketches by Boz

No book club edition. The 'first thus' traps are the reissues, and they are the books most people actually encounter. Macrone's own second edition of the First Series (1836) adds a new preface — an added preface is the tell. More consequentially, Chapman & Hall reissued the Sketches in twenty monthly parts, 1837-39, with new Cruikshank plates and a new vignette title, and sold the collected result from 1839 as the one-volume 'Sketches by Boz, Complete'; that Chapman & Hall text is the one endlessly reprinted and is routinely offered as an early Dickens first. Later states of the Second Series carry the list of illustrations on the Contents verso. Sets made up from odd volumes, or with the two series rebound to match each other, have had the cloth and endpaper evidence destroyed.