8vo. [2], xvi, 224pp. With half-title, a photographic frontispiece, and 49 further plates, largely photographic. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, and decorated in blind to upper board. Lightly rubbed and marked. A presentation copy, with the author's inked gift inscription addressed to 'My good friend in many Pilgrimages. A. E. Brookes Cross. Walter Dexter. 15 October 1926' to FFEP. Book-label of D. Farringdon to FEP. Leaves lightly browned, very occasional light spotting.

A presentation copy, in original cloth, of the first edition of a geographical study of Charles Dickens' iconic Pickwick Papers by Dickens enthusiast Walter Dexter, editor of The Dickensian, the Dickens Fellowship's triannual journal, from around 1925-1950. This copy was gifted by the author to fellow Dickensian and amateur writer A. E. Brookes Cross, who seems to have contributed several articles to the journal himself.