DICKENS (CHARLES) The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, EDWARD CHAPMAN'S COPY BOUND FOR HIM BY HAYDAY, Chapman and Hall, 1844DICKENS (CHARLES)The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, EDWARD CHAPMAN'S COPY BOUND FOR HIM BY HAYDAY, engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 38 plates by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"), the vignette on additional title signed "Phiz fecit", with reversed "100£" on signpost and seven studs in the trunk (Smith's state 1, no priority), 14-line errata on p.xv as usual (Smith's second setting), some oxidisation and spotting to plates, full pebbled burgundy morocco by Hayday (stamped "Bound by Hayday" and "Chapman & Hall" on front free endpaper), covers ornately gilt with gilt fillets enclosing inner panels with various floral, pointillé and other recurring tools, spine in six compartments ornately gilt, gilt dentelles, g.e., preserved in solander box [Smith I:7], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1844THE PUBLISHER'S OWN COPY, FINELY BOUND FOR HIM BY HAYDAY. By the time that Martin Chuzzlewit appeared Dickens and his family were living in Genoa, so there are no inscribed presentation copies, thus the dedicatee (Angela Burdett-Coutts) received a copy bound by Hayday to a similar design to Chapman's copy. Chapman, and his partner William Hall, were instrumental in the success of Dickens's career, having published The Pickwick Papers, after which "Dickens was associated with, and to a large extent made the fortune of, Chapman and Hall, even though he broke with the firm in so far as new fiction was concerned in 1844 [due to arguments relating to payments for Martin Chuzzlewit], and did not return fully until 1859" (ODNB).Provenance: Edward Chapman (1804-1880), bookplate; Sotheby's, 24 September 2019, lot 89.