Martin Chuzzlewitt.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1844.
8vo, [iii]-xiv [lacking half-title], [errata with 14 lines, verso blank], 624 pp. Forty etched plates including frontispiece and title-page vignette by Hablot K. Browne aka "Phiz." Half burgundy morocco, backstrip ruled and lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. Binding lightly rubbed and marked, contents toned with occasional spotting and pencil underlinings, Plates darkened and spotted as usual. Small ticket of Hugh Hopkins Bookseller of Glasgow and bookplate of Rev J. Mitchell Harvey on front pastedown.
§ First edition in book form, bound without the half-title, all else as called for in Smith (including the later state 14 line errata leaf), with vignette on title-page with amount on sign post reading "100£" and seven studs in the trunk. Smith I, 7. Item #126013
Price: $650.00