Complete and unabridged. Cockney sporting sketches - the amateur angler, the militia man, the fellow on a horse he cannot manage - drawn by the artist who proposed the idea that became The Pickwick Papers. Seymour shot himself after the second number, and Dickens took the project over. Its 80 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.

Robert Seymour (1798-1836) was an English illustrator and caricaturist. He originated the plan for a series of cockney sporting plates with accompanying text, for which the young Dickens was hired to write; after two numbers of what became The Pickwick Papers, Seymour took his own life. His works include Sketches by Seymour and Humorous Sketches.