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[Dickens, Charles]The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843-44 20 parts in 19, 8vo (222 x 140 mm). 40 plates by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"), mixed issue: Part 2 with plates transposed; Part 5 lacking the final 8 pp. advertisement at back; Part 7 lacking the slip following the front wrapper, plates transposed; Part 9 lacking ads on pp. 5-6, but including the rare pamphlet of advertisements by E. Moses and Son; Part 10 lacking the E. Moses and Son pamphlet; Part 11 with the plates transposed, including the E. Moses and Son pamphlet; Part 12 with the plates transposed; Part 13 with a variant E. Moses and Son advertisement at end; Part 15 with advertisements at end transposed; Part 16 with plates transposed, lacking the E. Moses and Son pamphlet at end; Part 18 with plates transposed; final double number with etched title-page with "£100" on the sign post with the first figure blurred and six studs in lid of the trunk (second state, no priority), 14-line errata slip, wrapper a later issue; other parts conform to first issue; occasional offsetting and spots, large open tear to p. 9 in Part 11, marginal pencil in part 8. Original wrappers; wrappers worn overall, separating on some issues, Part 1 front wrapper with long closed tear. Housed in a custom half-morocco box. Martin Chuzzlewit, in the original monthly parts, published from 31 December 1842 to 30 June 1844. This was the novel which Charles Dickens thought to be "in a hundred points immeasurably the best of my stories" (J. Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens 1928, p. 306). REFERENCE:Hatton & Cleaver pp.185-212Condition reportCondition as described in catalogue entry. The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The