DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. London: Chapman & Hall, January 1843 - July 1844.

20 parts in 19, 8vo. Half-title, vignette title, contents, preface, list of plates and errata in the final part; etched frontispiece, vignette title-page and 38 plates by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"). (Some light toning, spotting, and chipping.) Original blue-green pictorial printed wrappers (most spines repaired, some minor soiling and chipping with some repairs); slipcase. Provenance: Various signatures to a few parts; Thomas Hatton, Bibliographer of Charles Dickens (annotations, laid in autograph note, see below).

THE THOMAS HATTON COPY, WITH ANNOTATIONS BY HIM in pencil as follows in part 1 advertisements at the end: "M.C. 1" to first pages at the head of "Tea," “Extracts from the Britannia,” and "Wyld's Globes;" "M.C. at end pl I" on p.[3] of “Extracts from the Britannia." [Laid in:] HATTON, Thomas. Autograph note. N.p., n.d. 1 page on a bifolium wrapped around part 11, 4to, in pencil on paper. Relating to his Dickens bibliography: "Martin Chuzzlewit Part XI 7 copies - Incomplete Text only."

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS, FIRST ISSUE. PUBLISHER’S PRESENTATION COPY, part 5 front wrapper stamped “With The Publisher’s Compliments." With the following first issue points: the back wrapper of part 19/20 with the additional 2 lines at the foot ("A few copies in splendid scarlet binding, adapted to the drawing-room table, or forming an elegant souvenir" with "scarlet" not mentioned by Hatton and Cleaver); the engraved vignette title-page in the first impression with the reversed "100£," 7 studs in the trunk lid, and signed "Phiz fecit," but with the later 14-line errata. NEARLY COMPLETE WITH ALL TEXT, PLATES, WRAPPERS, SLIPS, AND ADVERTISEMENTS as called for in Hatton & Cleaver and in the first issue, except for: the rare and lacking "Foreign Travel" 2pp. slip in part 7 (noted in only 6 copies by Hatton and Cleaver); lacking "The 'Pride of London'" 32pp. back advertisement in part 11; lacking "The Temple of Fashion" 32pp. booklet at the end of part 16. Eckel, pp. 66-70; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 183-212; Smith pp. 65-67.