8vo. 30pp, [2]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece and 11 further plates. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed. With a loosely inserted engraved portrait of Charles Dickens, bearing facsimile signature. Browning to endpapers, light spotting to plates.

The first edition of perhaps the most personal memoir of Charles Dickens, compiled by his son, barrister Sir Henry Fielding Dickens (1849 – 1933), and furnished with several photographic portraits, landscapes, and reproductions of supplementary ephemera. Henry Fielding Dickens, named for a favourite author of his father, was known for his spirited legal practice, providing the famous defence of Kitty Byron in 1902; he would often perform imitation 'readings' in the style of his father, which were noted for their remarkable resemblance to the elder Dickens' performances.