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London: Chapman & Hall, 193 Piccadilly, 1865. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine+. First Issue (with all issue points per Smith, and November, not December, catalog at end of volume II). Demy 8vo (211 x 134mm): xii,320,3-36(first advertisement leaf not bound in); viii,312,4pp, with 20 full-page plates in each volume. Publisher's original dark purplish-brown sand-grain cloth, covers blocked in blind with decorative arch frame embellished with leaves and flowers; spines richly gilt with leaves, flowers, and flourishes and lettered in gilt; coated yellow end papers; fore-edge untrimmed. Contemporary ownership inscription of James Martin, Wainfleet, on fly-leaf and half-title, one dated [18]66. Original spines very skillfully laid down, paper hinges neatly reinforced, faint spotting and offsetting from plates, else an excellent set, tightly bound and clean throughout. Smith I, 15. Sadleir 697. Wolff II, 1809. Podeschi (Gimbel Collection) A. Grolier Dickens, pp. 154-56. Dickens's…

Charles Dickens's last completed novel, a work of satire and social commentary that paints a vivid portrait of the dualities of wealth and poverty in London.

First edition published in 1865 by Chapman & Hall in 19 monthly installments; each part contains illustrated plates by Marcus Stone.