[iii]-xvi, 624 pp. Illus. with 40 plates, 39 of them designed & etched on steel by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz), the 40th being a portrait of Dickens engraved by Finden from the painting by Maclise. 8½x5¼, period half black calf & cloth, spine tooled in blind, with raised bands tooled in gilt, titled in gilt. First Edition in book form, first issue.

This copy with the two first issue points, i.e. p.123, line 17, "visiter" for "sister"; and p.160, line 6 up, "latter" for "letter." First state of the frontispiece and of the first four plates, all having the the publisher's imprint. Bound without the half-title. Smith Vol. I, 5.