Dickens, Charles

3 volumes, 8vo (8 x 4 7/8 in.; 203 x 124 mm). Etched frontispiece in each volume and 21 plates after George Cruikshank, the cancel title in each vol,  4-page publisher's advertisement at end volume one, 2-page advertisement at beginning of vol 3, half-titles in vols 1-2; plates browned with offsetting, some marginal spotting, lower edge of second vol half-title torn. Publisher's reddish-brown fine-diaper cloth, covers with a blindstamped arabesque design, spines lettered and ruled in gold; joints broken with some mends, spines chipped with a few stains, corners bumped and torn, a few scrapes on covers.

John Waterhouse, Halifax (engraved armorial bookplates, signatures on front flyleaves)

W.E. Smith, Dickens in the Original Cloth (1982), I:30-35

plates browned with offsetting, some marginal spotting. Publisher's reddish-brown fine-diaper cloth, covers with a blindstamped arabesque design, spines lettered and ruled in gold; joints broken with some mends, corners bumped and torn, a few scrapes on covers.
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First edition in book form, printed before its completion in periodical form, corrected issue, with cancel titles showing the name of Dickens, and the first issue of volume three with "pilaster" unchanged on page 164, but with the "Church" plate facing page 313.