20 parts in 19, 8vo (222 x 142 mm). Half-title in pt. 11, with 40 (of 40) etched plates (including frontispiece and additional title-page) by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"). (Some staining or toning, some chipping, plates browned.) Original blue-green pictorial wrappers (a few wrappers detached, Part I soiled and with losses, some overall chipping, front wrapper to Part 3 supplied with part number updated in ink, repairs to spines). 

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS, VIRTUALLY COMPLETE WITH ADVERTISEMENTS AND INSERTED SLIPS, first issue of part 15, with character name "Rigaud" rather than "Blandois" on pages 469, 470, 472, and 474 and the subsequent correction slip in part 16. “Little Dorrit Advertiser” present throughout, all of the inserted advertisements as called for by Hatton and Cleaver, with the following exceptions: additional advertisements not called for in parts 2 and 9; lacking 12pp. front ads in parts 3 and 15; lacking rear ads in parts 2, 3, 5, 11, 15, and 17; lacking one ad in part 6.