- Plates badly foxed; contemp. owner's entry on title-p.; one plate tear in lower half; new endpapers. Rebound w. use of contemp. backstrip.

= Following points in our copy: the plates are without captions; the marginal note on p.9 present; p.342/ line 5 reads "S. Veller"; 50 lines to the page. Without the two "Chapters III" and without the two deleted plates by BOZ. Early version of the first edition, according to Eckel p.56-57.

AND 2 others (1x related), i.a. a mediocre copy of The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (ibid., 1844, steelengr. title-p., engr. frontisp. and 38 plates by PHIZ (= H.K. Browne). Sold w.a.f.).