Wolff, R.L. 19th cent. fiction, 1796
Sadleir, M. 19th cent. fiction, 685
Smith, W.E. Charles Dickens in the original cloth, II, 6
Podeschi, J.B. Dickens & Dickensiana, A92
Carr, L. VanderPoel Dickens, B402
Illustrated by Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, John Leech, and Edwin Landseer.
Actually first published on December 20, 1845. Cf. Smith, W.E. Charles Dickens in the original cloth, II, p. 43.
Added engraved t.p. is one of the two leaves of plates.
The advertisement leaf (p. [1]-[2] at end) is known to exist in two states: in the first state, the advertisement on the recto has ten lines and no heading; in the second state, this advertisement has eleven lines and a heading. Cf. Smith, II, p. 39-40.
For other textual variants due to the use of multiple stereotype plates simultaneously see Smith, II, p. 42-43; Podeschi, J.B. Dickens & Dickensiana, p. 93-95; and Carr, L. VanderPoel Dickens, p. 118-119.