Dombey and Son

No book club edition for an 1848 Dickens. The reprint field is where the difficulty sits: Bradbury and Evans reprinted from the same setting, and the Chapman & Hall Cheap, Library and Charles Dickens editions followed, so an 1848 date on the title page is necessary and not sufficient — the vignette-title hook and the p. 284 and p. 324 readings are what separate the first issue. Sets of the parts are routinely made up, with wrappers and advertisements supplied from other copies or facsimiled; Hatton and Cleaver's collation of the ads and slips is the check, and 'all the ads called for by Hatton & Cleaver' is the phrase a described set should be able to support. Volumes bound from the parts and later 19th-century leather rebinds are commonly catalogued flatly as 'first edition 1848', which is true of the sheets and silent about the issue and the binding.