8vo (212 x 125 mm). Half-title; engraved frontispiece, engraved title (disbound, marginal chipping); 41 engraved plates by R. Seymour and H. K. Browne ("Phiz"). EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the addition of ca 22 plates. (Some minor spotting to a few leaves.)  20th-century maroon morocco gilt, stamp-signed by Riviere & Son (some slight rubbing to joints, minor wear to spine ends).  Provenance: Sold Halle Bros. Co. (envelope and bookseller notes laid-in).

FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM.  An EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED copy of Dickens's first novel with all of Smith's first issue points present except signature E is present on p.25. Gimbel A15; Grolier English78; Smith I:3. 

WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY DICKENS TIPPED IN.
[Tipped in:] Autograph letter signed ("Charles Dickens"), to Miss Loretta Huffam. Kent, 8 February 1870. 2 pages, 8vo, on Gad's Hill Place Stationery, with original envelope. In part: "I was more amazed than displeased. I beg to assure you, by finding that your friends had used my name without my knowledge. I received a letter from...Hurt & Rockwell of Bond Street, informing me that they had had the pleasure of voting for 'my case.'...They then gave me your name. Not having the faintest idea that you were a candidate...I mentioned this in a general way to my sister."