DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. London: Chapman & Hall, January 1843-July 1844.

20 parts in 19, 8vo (223 x 141 mm). Half-title, title, contents, preface, list of plates and errata in the final part. Etched frontispiece, vignette title-page and 38 plates by Hablot K. Browne ["Phiz"]. (Plates with marginal toning as usual, some scattered spotting.) Original blue-green pictorial printed wrappers (repairs to a few spines, some light chipping, some staining); green cloth slipcase and chemise.

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS, the vignette title-page in the third state with the signpost reading "£100" and with five studs in the lid of the trunk, and later issue of the errata with 14 lines. "The Chuzzlewit Advertiser" present in all parts (except part 10), though incomplete in parts: 11 (lacking 14 of 16 pp.), 12 (lacking pp. 1-2, 7-10, and 13-14); 18 (lacking pp. 19-20); ad 19/20 (lacking pp. 5-10 and 17-22). With all of the other advertisements called for by Hatton & Cleaver, with the following exceptions: lacking rear advertising booklet in parts 9, 10, 11, 12, and 16; lacking the advertising slip at the end of part 7 (only present in 6 copies, according to Hatton and Cleaver); variant inner wrapper advertisement to part 17. Hatton & Cleaver, pp.183-212; Eckel, pp.71-73.

Property of an Illinois collector

Property of an Illinois collector

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. London: Chapman & Hall, January 1843-July 1844.