239 pages, illustrated, in pristine slipcasee. A clean, unmarked and solid copy which appears unread. Fourth impression. Includes as a loose insert a reproduction of the famous portrait of Charles Dickens. It is offered "With Compliments Selpharm Laboratories Limited." Its verso spruiks Ponderax and Obesity Research. " Dicken's London contains a collection of essays written by Dickens between about 1830 and about 1860. They appeared in the Morning and Evening Chronicle, Sketches by Boz, Household Words, All the Year Round and the Uncommerical Traveller, and are essentially tours of the London of Dickens' time or sometimes the remembered London of his youth. Dickens is a delightful guide, and one sees that his description of the people of London has much in common with the characters of his novels. As a sidelight, one also sees here that the various opinions and prejudices that Dickens has some of his characters say, are indeed his own. " (Mark Goodreads)