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FIRST EDITION with all points per Smith. Two Octavo volumes. [i-vii] viii-ix [x] Xi [xii], [1] 2-320, [1] - 36 (catalogue dated January 1865); [i-v] vi-vii [viii] , [1] 2-309 [ -312] (colophon and ads), [4] (catalogue dated November 1865). Forty inserted plates after Marcus Stone.Publisher's original purple sand grain cloth, Boards conventionally blocked in blind, Spines decorated and lettered in gilt. Original pale yellow in papers. Previous owners signature to front pay down of same volume; Hugh Mitchell Pitlochry. On the half title Mr. Mitchell has added his notary embossed stamp (reading High Mitchell, Notary Public, 1874). The second volume with the binders ticket (Virtue & Co.) On the lower front pace down and with our armorial plate of Beatrice Lady Ellenborough. With a small embossed stamp on front free in paper of book seller WH Smith and son. The first volume has been carefully and almost imperceptibly rebacked by the Heritage Bindery. Volume two is a bit darker than volume…

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.