London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition in book form (with three of Smith's seven first issue points). Thick 8vo. (iii)-xiv, (ii), 609 pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title-page, and 41 engraved plates, by Robert Seymour and Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"). Cosway-style binding of full brown levant, decorated in gilt, hand-painted oval portrait miniature of Dickens laid into center of front paste-down under rounded glass; gilt dentelles; green levant doublures; green silk free endleaves; by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; in quarter brown levant solander box. Smith I, 3; Gimbel A15; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 1-88; Eckel, pp. 17-58; Grolier English 78

A handsome Cosway-style binding with a fine hand-painted portrait miniature of Dickens.