8vo (219 x 138mm).  (Lacking half-title; frontispiece, title, two text leaves (pp. 199-202) and final plate detached and a bit frayed at edges, some browning to plates.)  Late 19th-century half morocco gilt over marbled boards (minor wear to extremities, some rubbing to boards, rear hinge starting). 

 

FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, this copy with copy frontispiece in 1st state (with imprint), first four plates in later state without imprint, page 123 with "sister" (2d state) & page 160 with "letter" (2d state). Smith I:5; Eckel, p. 64.

 

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DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. London: Chapman & Hall, 1844. 

 

8vo (219 x 138mm). Frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 38 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne. (Lacking half-title, frontispiece detached and slightly shorter, engraved title and a few plates slighty shorter, some toning and spotting to plates, including frontispiece and pictorial title.) Late 19th-century half morocco gilt over marbled boards (minor wear to extremities, some rubbing to boards). 

 

FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, second issue, with the signpost reading £100 and the 14-line errata leaf after list of plates. Smith Vol. I:7; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 185-224. Eckel, pp. 71-73.