With A Check Signed By Dickens

London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition in book form, later issue. 8vo. xiv, (ii), 609 pp., including facsimile half-title. Original partially-printed Messrs. Coutts & Company check, accomplished and signed by Dickens mounted on front blank, dated November 16, 1868, in the amount of £5, payable to a Miss Huffam. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title-page, and 41 engraved plates by Robert Seymour and Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"). Full blue levant, decorated in gilt with a circular portrait of Dickens on front board and his facsimile signature on rear board, spine slightly faded; all edges gilt; gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers; by Bayntun (Riviere); plates variously toned; top corner of final text leaf repaired; in blue cloth slip case. Smith I, 3

A near-fine copy.