London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854

8vo, pp. 352. Original green cloth, with blind-stamped design to both panels and lettered in gilt to spine. Yellow endpapers. Partly unopened. Small white paint-splash to rear panel, boards faded, and especially so at spine. Corners bumped, spine ends worn with slight loss and a little unobtrusive splitting. Pencilled ownership signature to half-title.

First edition in book form, first impression, with p.244 misnumbered as '44'. In the first issue binding, with 'Price 5-/-' in gilt to the spine. First published in serial form in Household Words in the same year.