Original 20 parts in 19. Half-titles. Illustrated with 40 wood-engraved plates after Marcus Stone. (8vo) 8¾x5½, original wrappers; housed in 2 custom morocco backed chemises and morocco tipped slipcases. First Edition.

First edition, in original parts. Each part bound with the "Our Mutual Friend Advertiser" plus several other slips and inserts. With all advertisements as called for by Hatton & Cleaver except as follows: Part 1, ad for Fry's Cocoa in the Homeopathich Cocoa variant but printed on Lemon color paper versus the pink suggested by H. & C.; Part 7 lacking all rear advertisements; Part 8 lacking Chapman & Hall's List of New Books; Part 9 with two slips at front and one at rear for J.F. Dunn's City Book Mart not called for by H. & C., lacking Ewer & Co.'s Musical Library ad; Part 11 lacking Headless Horseman slip; Part 12 lacking People's Pickwick slip; Part 14 lacking Economic Life Assurance Society ad; Part 15 with a second copy of the Mappin, Webb & Co. ad inserted at front; Part 18 lacking Mappin, Webb 7 Co. ad; Part 19/20 lacking Economic Life Assurance Society ad. Hatton & Cleaver pp. 345-370.