London: Chapman and Hall, May 1864-November 1865. 20 parts in 19 volumes. First edition, in original monthly parts. 8vo. All ads present per Hatton & Cleaver (including the scarce address to the reader slip in No. 1 concerning the work's title), except No. XIV lacking ad following plates ("The Economic Life Assurance Society"); p. 13 of the "Advertiser" in No. 10 in uncorrected state, where it is misnumbered "31". Illustrated with 40 wood-engraved plates by Marcus Stone. Publisher's limp printed blue pictorial wrappers (wrapper No. 1 in first state without imprint), scattered repairs, chipping, and soiling, scattered small chipping to spine ends; text partially unopened in Nos. 8 and 19/20; scattered minor spotting to text and plates; faint dampstaining to plates in No. 10; in quarter green morocco slip case and chemise, book-plate of Robert H. & Donna L. Jackson on inner panel. Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 345-370; Eckel, pp. 94-95

A near-fine first edition in monthly parts of Charles Dickens' fourteenth novel, the last completed before his death.