8vo (212 x 130 mm). Half-title, 43 engraved plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz") and others (including engraved frontispiece, additional engraved vignette title-page). (Lacking advertisements, some spotting heavier to plates, a few short tears to plates repaired verso.) 20th-century half blue calf gilt, marbled boards (spine and edges sunned).

FIRST EDITION, BOUND FROM THE ORIGINAL PARTS, third issue with signature E on p.25 and pagination on p.26, and Hatton & Cleaver's Variant B with "inbe-licate"and "inscriptino" on p.341 lines 1 and 5, and "S. Veller" on p.342 line 5. With most plates in Hatton & Cleaver's second state. Lacking both suppressed plates in part 3 but with two later plates not mentioned in Hatton & Cleaver: "The fat boy awake on this occasion only" (facing p.73) and "Mr. Wardle & his friends under the influence of 'the Salmon,'"(facing p.76). Eckel pp. [23]- 50; Gimbel A15; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 3-88; Smith I:3.