2 volumes, 8vo (197 x 120 mm). Half-titles. (Very minor spotting primarily affecting preliminaries.) Original grayish brown horizontally-ribbed blind-stamped cloth, spines gilt-lettered (slight fading to extremities and spine, tiny split to head of spine vol.I, corners bumped). Provenance: Edward A. Jones (signatures, 1842). 

 

FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with the second page of the vol.I table of contents misnumbered as page xvi and 6pp. of advertisements at the end of vol.II. Dicken’s preface to American Notes was removed from the preliminary pages and the original pagination was not immediately altered, as here, in the first state, with p. x incorrectly numbered xvi. In the second state, the preliminaries were reprinted with the correct pagination. The preface was not published during Dickens’ lifetime, and first appeared in Forster’s biography of Dickens. Eckel, p 108; Gimbel A66; Smith 2:3