8vo (210 x 125 mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title, 38 engraved plates by Cruikshank. (A few small spots or stains.) 20th-century red crushed levant gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by Riviere & Son; original wrapper to part X bound in; red cloth folding case. 

FIRST EDITION, BOUND FROM THE ORIGINAL PARTS, WITH AN AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED BY DICKENS TIPPED IN: Autograph note signed ("Charles Dickens"), to John Hardwick. Devonshire Terrace, 1 December 1850. 1 page, 8vo, on a bifolium. "I shall be delighted and book myself accordingly." John Hardwick (1790–1875) was presiding magistrate at Great Marlborough Street Magistrate's Court in Soho.