20 parts in 19, 8vo. Etched frontispiece, additional pictorial title-page, and 38 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"). (Minor offsetting, a few short tears not affecting text, lacking half of one leaf of rear advertisement in part 12, torn away.) Original blue-green pictorial printed wrappers, uncut (some minor chipping and light soiling, slight staining); slipcase. Provenance: Various signatures, stamps, and annotations to a few parts; bookseller's description tipped to part 1 front wrapper.

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS, FIRST ISSUE. VIRTUALLY COMPLETE WITH ADVERTISEMENTS AND INSERTED SLIPS, including " with "Rigaud" for "Blandois" on pp. 469, 470, 472, and 473 in part 15, and the subsequent correction slip in part 16. With all the first issue points of the text, plates, wrappers, slips, and advertisements as called for in Hatton & Cleaver, except for the following: rear advertisements  are lacking in parts 1, 3, and 6-7; rear advertisements in parts 10 and 14 are incomplete; the front wrapper of part 19/20 does not include a "2" in "price 2s." Eckel (1972), pp. 82-85; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 307-330.