3 volumes, 4to (253 x 168 mm). 3 frontispieces, and numerous wood-engraved illustrations by George Cattermole and by Hablot K. Browne (“Phiz”). (A touch of light toning and some minor soiling, a few leaves with slight creasing.) Original variant brown cloth gilt-decorated with floral design, marbled edges, with red, green, and blue hair-vein marbled endpapers (spines sunned and some fading to sides, slight wear to extremities, a few hinges starting, a few gatherings sprung). Provenance: Walter E. Smith, Dickens’ Bibliographer (signature on front flyleaf of vol. I).

FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, FIRST ISSUE, IN SMITH'S VARIANT BINDING with the rococo stem-leaf design and the central clock design having an oval face with a bird in the center gilt on the upper covers and stamped in blind on the lower covers. With all the first issue points for text and illustrations as called for by Smith. THE WALTER E. SMITH COPY. Eckel, p. 68; Smith I:6 (this copy illustrated on p. 45); Yale/Gimbel A51.