The Way We Live Now

Points: octavo parts in the original blue printed pictorial wrappers, the front wrapper designed around a globe on which Father Time sits dejectedly amid scenes from the financier Melmotte's career; forty wood-engraved plates after Lionel G. Fawkes, signed "LF" — Sadleir originally mis-attributed these to Luke Fildes and later corrected the attribution, and the Fildes error is still repeated in the trade; and the inserted advertisements, which must collate as Sadleir sets out and include the separately titled "The Way We Live Now Advertiser"