The Uncommercial Traveller : With original illustrations

The role of the explorer and investigator of interesting things was explained by Dickens in the introduction to the work:

No landlord is my friend and brother, no chambermaid loves me, no waiter worships me, no boots admires and envies me. No round of beef or tongue or ham is expressly cooked for me, no pigeon-pie is especially made for me, no hotel-advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hotel-room tapestried with great-coats and railway wrappers is set apart for me, no house of pub...