88 weekly parts, 8vo. 3 frontispieces and numerous wood engravings by George Cattermole, Hablot K. Browne (“Phiz”) and others. (Slight chipping, a few short tears occassionally affecting text.) Original pictorial printed white self-wrappers, uncut (slight soiling, some chipping and tearing occasionally affecting text); slipcases. Provenance: various effaced signatures to a few parts; Edith Taylor ("The Glen" bookplates).

FIRST EDITION, IN THE ORIGINAL 88 WEEKLY PARTS, also including FIRST EDITIONS of The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. With preliminaries (frontispiece, title-page, and Preface) for the 3-volume edition present in numbers 26, 52, and 88; addresses by the author in numbers 9, 80-83, and 87. Each weekly part was issued as a single folded sheet of 16 pages, 4 of which formed the outer wrapper around 12 numbered pages of letterpress. "Of the four issues the weekly one is difficult to obtain in a clean condition and is therefore the costliest" (Eckel). All 88 parts include front wrappers with an engraved design by George Cattermole which was engraved in wood by E. Landells. One of the first works to be published in both weekly and monthly parts, a strategy which proved unsuccessful. Eckel, pp. 61-65; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 161-182.