20 parts in 19. Illustrated with 40 etched plates by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). (8vo) 8¾x5¾, original green wrappers with woodcut design by Browne, green cloth drop-back box. First Edition.

Complete Dickens novel in the original parts. With corrected text on last line of page 324 (later state); page numeral '431' present (later state); page 426, line 9 lacking first word 'if' (earlier state); eight-line errata in Part XIX-XX (later state). This work contained the first example of what later became known as the "Dark Plates," captioned "On the dark Road"; these were later used more extensively in Bleak House and other works; it also contained the first examples of horizontal etchings on the steels used in a Dickens' books, five in number. The advertisements, contain the following variations from the delineation by Hatton & Cleaver: Part I has the rear wrapper called for on Part IV; Part II has the rear wrapper called for on Part XI and lacks the 'Punch' slip at rear; Part III lacks 3 of the ads at rear, only the Chapman & Hall 8 page catalog is present; Part IV lacks 6 ads at the rear with only the first leaf of the 4-fold sheet at rear advertising Lett's Diaries remaining; Part V lacking errata slip, with insert at front for The National Cyclopaedia not called for by Hatton and Cleaver; Part VIII with ads at rear for Heath's Illustrated New Testament and Sharpe's Corresponding Maps not called for by Hatton and Cleaver; Part IX lacks the Dakin and Co. ad at rear; Part X lacks 8-page ad for James Gilbert; Part XI lacking the Letts, Son & Steer slip, with "Disgrace to the Family" slip and the Dakin & Co. ad not called for in this part (but called for in Part IX); Part XIII has 8 pp ads at rear for James Gilbert not called for in this part (but called for, and lacking, in Part X); Part XIV with Letts, Son & Steer slip at rear not called for in this part (but called for, and lacking, in Part XI); Part XV has the full compliment of 18 diary leaf specimens, lacking the Twiddlethumb Town slip; Part XVII lacks the slip for The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith which should follow the plates; Part XIX/XX lacking the first leaf of "Dr. Locock's Lotion" ad at rear. Hatton & Cleaver p.227.