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. 8x5, modern ¾ dark blue levant morocco & marbled boards, spine tooled & lettered in gilt, raised bands. 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." Later state of the frontispiece, with publisher's imprint; of the first four plates, all but the third have the publisher's imprint (indicating first state), although on the fourth it has been partially shaved. Smith Vol. I, 5.