8vo, 3 volumes, FIRST EDITION, first issue, 3 frontispieces and 21 engraved plates by George Cruikshank, half-titles, with the list of Cruickshank illustrations in volume 1, 4-page publisher's advertisement at the end of volume 1, with the fireside plate in volume 3, this copy EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with a complete set of duplicate etchings of the Cruikshank plates (plus the substituted "Rose Maylie and Oliver at the Tomb" plate), 21 etchings by F.W. Pailthorpe (together with the same etchings, hand-coloured), 18 hand-coloured character sketches by J. Clayton Clarke ("Kyd"), a proof etching portrait of Bill Sykes after Barnard, two steel engravings after Darley, vignette title page for the first Library edition, and hand-coloured of the same vignette by F.W. Pailthorpe, original cloth covers and spines bound in; [together with:] manuscript volume, in ink, 216 pages, collating the various early editions and textual variations; later crushed red morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, top edges gilt, inner dentelles, maroon endpapers (4)

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A HANDSOME EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY OF DICKENS' CELEBRATED AND PERENNIALLY POPULAR 'REALIST' NOVEL. The two sets of plates by Pailthorpe comprise  one of 50 sets of India proofs (this no.25) and one of 50 sets hand-coloured (this no.134), out of a total edition of 200. The two colophon pages for this impression, a title page, and list of etchings are bound in. Loosely inserted is an autograph note by George Cruikshank relating to the 24 watercolour drawings and plates he executed in 1865/6 for his friend F.M. Cosens (not present in this set).