London: Bradbury and Evans, December 1855-June 1857. 20 parts in 19 volumes. First edition in monthly parts (first issue of No. XV, with "Rigaud" instead of "Blandois"). 8vo. Illustrated with an etched frontispiece, etched vignette title-page, and 38 etched plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"). Complete, with all ads, per Hatton & Cleaver. Publisher's limp printed blue pictorial wrappers, several spines expertly rebacked to style, scattered mostly light wear to wrappers and extremities, bookseller's ticket at bottom front wrapper, No. XIV, contemporary ownership signature on front wrapper of Nos. XIX/XX; scattered foxing to plates, generally along edges; light scattered spotting to text; text of No. VIII unopened; in full crimson niger solander box. Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 307-330; Eckel, pp. 82-85

A near-fine and complete first edition in monthly parts of Dickens' Little Dorrit, his "second assault on the archaism of imprisonment for debt." (Eckel) Despite the book's attack by many critics, it proved to be one of Dickens's most popular works, with circulation figures almost equal to the record-breaking numbers of Bleak House.