London: Chapman and Hall, April 1840-November 1841. First edition in original 88 weekly parts. Large 8vo. With prelims (frontispiece, title-page and preface) in Nos. 26, 52 and 88; addresses by the author in Nos. 9, 80-83, and 87. Illustrated with numerous wood engraving by George Cattermole and Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"). Publisher's limp printed pictorial white self-wrappers, scattered light wear and soiling, scattered edge-wear; Nos. 16 and 46 unopened; in three full crushed green levant solander boxes and chemises. Eckel, pp. 61-65; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 161-182

Handsome first edition in the original weekly parts including the first appearances of The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. Master Humphrey's Clock was one of the first works Dickens introduced in weekly parts, and "of the four issues the weekly one is difficult to obtain in a clean condition and is therefore the costliest" (Eckel).