3 volumes, 8o (200 x 120 mm). 8 pp. publisher's catalogue at end volume two dated May 1841; 4 pp. publisher's advertisements at end volume three. Three frontispieces and 11 etched plates by George Cruikshank, "Phiz" (Hablot K. Browne), and Robert Jacob Hamerton (one or two loose, some margins browned, frontispiece volume one spotted). (Some light spotting.) Original pea-green fine-ribbed cloth (spines sunned and repaired). Provenance: E. M. Hookson (signatures); Sidney J. Miller, Jr. (bookplates); "The Sign of the Mermaid" (bookseller's label). 

 

FIRST EDITION, second issue, with the Palmer imprint on verso of title-page and the reading "young publisher" in the Introduction. In addition to the introduction, Dickens contributed The Lamplighter's Story (a revision of his unacted farce The Lamplighter) and edited volumes one and two.

 

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