8vo (212 x 131 mm). 43 engraved plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz") and others (including engraved frontispiece and additional engraved vignette title-page). (Lacking half-title, some toning and spotting.) Late 19th-century calf decorated in blind and gilt, edges marbled, with the original part 12 wrapper trimmed, mounted, and bound in at front (hinge broken, slight staining, some minor wear to extremities). Provenance: B. Williams Ball (bookplate); Richard H. Tidswell (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION, BOUND FROM THE ORIGINAL PARTS, third issue with signature E on p.25 and pagination on p.26. Most plates are in Hatton & Cleaver's second plate or first state of the second Seymour plate. With "A Tribute to Genius" stamp for Charles Dickens tipped to front flyleaf. Eckel (1972), pp. [17-59]; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 3-88; Yale/Gimbel A15.