20 parts in 19, 8vo. Etched frontispiece, additional pictorial title-page, and 38 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"). (Plates in a few parts with some toning and offsetting, occasional light spotting, a few short tears just touching text.) Original blue-green pictorial printed wrappers (some soiling and spotting, a few spines neatly repaired, some minor chipping to extremities); slipcase. Provenance: Various signatures or initials to a few parts; Thomas Hatton, Bibliographer of Charles Dickens (annotations, see below).

THE THOMAS HATTON COPY, WITH ANNOTATIONS BY HIM in pencil as follows: “Slip to be added" on part 16 front wrapper (but all slips are present); "slip often missing" on the correction slip regarding the use of "Rigaud'" for "Blandois" in part 15.

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS, FIRST ISSUE, COMPLETE WITH ALL TEXT, PLATES, WRAPPERS, SLIPS, AND ADVERTISEMENTS as called for in Hatton & Cleaver. Eckel (1972), pp. 82-85; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 307-330. With 1p. slip laid in, likely from the publisher or a contemporary bookseller: "All ye who wish to read this part of Little Dorrit,-- ... And, if ye damage 't aught, 'tis hop'd ye will refund it." RARE.