20 parts in 19, 8vo. Half-titles, frontispiece and 39 wood-engraved plates after Marcus Stone by Dalziel and W. T. Green . (Most parts lacking the “Our Mutual Friend Adverstiser,” lacking some other inserted ads and slips, some spotting and marginal darkening to some plates, occasional spotting to text.) Original green pictorial printed wrappers (spines worn with some chips, some browning, chipping and staining to covers); quarter morocco folding case.  

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS, first issue of part 1 without the printer's imprint on front wrapper, and with the scarce slip addressed to the reader. T. Our Mutual Friend was Dickens’ fourteenth, and final, completed novel. Eckel, pp. 94-5; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 343-370; Yale/Gimbel A149.