FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. 8vo. (8.5 x 5.5 inches). Bound from the original monthly parts, published between April and September 1870. Illustrated with a portrait frontis and 12 full page plates by S. L. Fildes. With Front cover from part V. August 1870, and one leaf of publishers adverts, bound in at the back of the book. As copies of the parts were bound up at different times this is not unusual. Some mild foxing to several pages throughout the book but overall a very good example in an attractive early leather binding of half dark green morocco. Spine with raised bands, each with a gilt ruled line. Compartments double ruled and elaborately decorated, and one panel lettered, in gilt. Marbled paper on boards and endpapers. All edges gilt. Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper. A little rubbing to the edges but overall a very attractive copy of Dickens' last, and unfinished, novel.