6 original parts (224 x 141 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by J.H. Baker from a photograph, engraved title after Luke Fildes, 12 wood-engraved plates by Dalziel, C. Roberts and others after Fildes. (A few minor stains or spots.) Original blue-green pictorial wrappers (chipping to spines and edges, loss to front wrapper outer margin vol. I, some soiling); red morocco slipcase gilt. 

 

FIRST EDITION, IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS. The "Edwin Drood Advertiser" is present in each part, as well as all the inserted advertisements listed in Hatton and Cleaver except the scarce "Cork Hat" ad, and the second leaf of the "To Whom it May Concern" ad in part II. Part VI with the printed slip "Price Eighteenpence" pasted over the original price of "One Shilling". Eckel pp. 96-98; Hatton and Cleaver pp. 373-384; Gimbel A154. 

 

Property of an Illinois collector