Item #29683.2 The LIFE And ADVENTURES Of MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT, His Relatives, Friends and Enemies: Comprising His Wills and His Ways: With an Historical Record of What He Did, and What He Didn't: Showing, Moreover, Who Inherited the Family Plate, Who Came in for the Silver Spoons, and Who for the Wooden Ladles. The Whole Forming a Complete Key to the House of Chuzzlewit. By Charles Dickens, Esq. Author of 'American Notes,' 'Barnaby Rudge,' &c. &c. &c. Charles . Lever Dickens, Charles, W. Harrison - Other Contributors Ainsworth.
The LIFE And ADVENTURES Of MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT, His Relatives, Friends and Enemies: Comprising His Wills and His Ways: With an Historical Record of What He Did, and What He Didn't: Showing, Moreover, Who Inherited the Family Plate, Who Came in for the Silver Spoons, and Who for the Wooden Ladles. The Whole Forming a Complete Key to the House of Chuzzlewit. By Charles Dickens, Esq. Author of 'American Notes,' 'Barnaby Rudge,' &c. &c. &c.
The LIFE And ADVENTURES Of MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT, His Relatives, Friends and Enemies: Comprising His Wills and His Ways: With an Historical Record of What He Did, and What He Didn't: Showing, Moreover, Who Inherited the Family Plate, Who Came in for the Silver Spoons, and Who for the Wooden Ladles. The Whole Forming a Complete Key to the House of Chuzzlewit. By Charles Dickens, Esq. Author of 'American Notes,' 'Barnaby Rudge,' &c. &c. &c.
The LIFE And ADVENTURES Of MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT, His Relatives, Friends and Enemies: Comprising His Wills and His Ways: With an Historical Record of What He Did, and What He Didn't: Showing, Moreover, Who Inherited the Family Plate, Who Came in for the Silver Spoons, and Who for the Wooden Ladles. The Whole Forming a Complete Key to the House of Chuzzlewit. By Charles Dickens, Esq. Author of 'American Notes,' 'Barnaby Rudge,' &c. &c. &c.
The LIFE And ADVENTURES Of MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT, His Relatives, Friends and Enemies: Comprising His Wills and His Ways: With an Historical Record of What He Did, and What He Didn't: Showing, Moreover, Who Inherited the Family Plate, Who Came in for the Silver Spoons, and Who for the Wooden Ladles. The Whole Forming a Complete Key to the House of Chuzzlewit. By Charles Dickens, Esq. Author of 'American Notes,' 'Barnaby Rudge,' &c. &c. &c.

The LIFE And ADVENTURES Of MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT, His Relatives, Friends and Enemies: Comprising His Wills and His Ways: With an Historical Record of What He Did, and What He Didn't: Showing, Moreover, Who Inherited the Family Plate, Who Came in for the Silver Spoons, and Who for the Wooden Ladles. The Whole Forming a Complete Key to the House of Chuzzlewit. By Charles Dickens, Esq. Author of 'American Notes,' 'Barnaby Rudge,' &c. &c. &c. Monthly Serial Supplement to The New World.

New York: J. Winchester, New World Press. XXX Ann Street. 1843 - 1844. 1st US edition (Calinescu Collection, Part I, 58 [bound, and incomplete]; Edgar & Vail, p. 22 [holding through Part No. 12]; Gimbel E130 & A77 [for the volume edition]). Not in the McGuire Collection catalogue, the VanderPoel catalogue, Lougy's Bibliography of Chuzzlewit [Garland, 1990] nor Wilkins. 19 Issues, complete. Parts 1 - 7 & 9 - 10: 32 pp; 8, 11, & 12: 40 pp; 13: 16 pp; 14 - 18: 8 pp; 19 - 12 pp. Title leaf & Preface leaf, published with No. 19, now bound-in at front. Text double-column. Irregular pagination: 167, 30 - 54, 193 - 446; [147] - 190. P. 295 mispaginated as 2; p. 434 as 435; p. 170 as 179. Wood engraved masthead vignette top of issues 1 - 14; simplified text-only masthead, the remaining 5 issues. Folio. ~ 11-1/2" x 7-3/4". Parts bound into a period tan half-leather binding with marbled boards. Spine gilt-lettered "New World" in the 2nd compartment, and underneath, in the 4th compartment, "Vol II" General extremity wear to the binding, with the joint leather tender. Rubs & scuffs to spine leather. Foxing & browning throughout. Withal, a VG copy. Item #29683.2

Preceding the Harper edition by 18 months, this the very rare 1st US edition of MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT, which, given its rarity, to this day, most collectors & booksellers adhere to Edgar & Vail's 1929 supposition herewith quoted, "it is probable that the unpopularity of the work caused Winchester to give up further serial publication, though he advertised the complete work at 25 cents."

Now having seen the entire, and the drop off in content with the later issues, we surmise Winchester perhaps encountered some business/financial trouble, which begins to explain the prior belief that apparently Winchester did not finish publishing the work.

Price: $1,250.00

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