Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens, first edition. Published by Bradbury and Evans (for the Author) in 1846.Original blue publisher's cloth with some soiling. and slight wear to bottom and top of spine. Name-plate on front paste down. Slight browning throughout but overall a good, tight, clean copy. this is a first edition, first issue with ads for "Oliver Twist" before the half-title and Christmas Books ads at the end of the book. Pages 5 and 270 are unnumbered. Vignettes on wood by Samuel Palmer. Faint ink owner's name on free rear paper with date.