8vo (216 x 133 mm). 43 engraved plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), Robert William Buss, and Robert Seymour (including engraved frontispiece and additional engraved vignette title-page), EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH 32 PLATES by Onwhyn. (Spotting and toning to plates.) 20th-century olive morocco gilt, spine in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands gilt, gilt-lettering in 2.

FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM text with most of the first issue points listed in Smith. Gimbel A15; Grolier English 78; Smith I:3.  

[Tipped in:] DICKENS. Autograph document signed ("Charles Dickens"), a check, drawn on Coutts Bank, payable to "Young Ladies Quarters, £25.00." London, 4 March 1862.