8vo. viii, 352pp. Advertisements to endpapers dated 1870. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. A trifle rubbed and marked, cocked. Hinges exposed, blind-stamp of W. H. Smith and Son to FEP, inked ownership inscription to half-title, very occasional light spotting.

Remaindered sheets of the first edition of Hard Times - Dickens's only novel set entirely outside of the boundaries of London - bound in emulation of the People's Edition of the author's works published by Chapman and Hall between 1865 and 1867.