Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club With forty-three illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz [and R.W. Buss]

Dickens, Charles

Published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1837

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Rebacked in half leather with complementary marbled paper. Original spine attached; new endpages; Spine with five raised bands with gilt titles and decorations. Marbled text block edges. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning occasional foxing. Moderate shelf handling wear. Frontispiece and engraved title page heavily age-toned the other plates have darkening on the perimeter and occasional foxing. Bookseller marks and ownership on the verso of the free front endpage.8vo; 8.5 inches tall; 609 pages. 43 etched plates by Robert Seymour, H. K. Browne ("Phiz"), and Robert William Buss. Second Issue of the First Book Edition in a mixed state with the following 1st issue points present. 'Veller' to the sign on the engraved title page; five lines of footnotes to page 9; with mark between 'r' and 'u' in 'rum' in the last line of page 10; with the last 'e' of page 17 broken; with the signature 'E' present to the tail of pages 25 and 27; without the parenthesis in lines 14 and 15 from the bottom of page 34; page 261 correctly signed 'X2'; with the second '3' in the page number present to page 303; ine 1 of page 341 reading 'inbe-licate' rather than 'inde-licate'; line 5 of page 341 reading 'inscriptino'. Some plates with page numbers, some with titles. Does not contain the two suppressed plates. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club was the first novel by English author Charles Dickens. Because of his success with Sketches by Boz published in 1836, Dickens was asked by the publisher Chapman & Hall to supply descriptions to explain a series of comic 'cockney sporting plates' by illustrator Robert Seymour, and to connect them into a novel. Seller Inventory # 17382

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Title: Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club With ...

Publisher: Chapman and Hall, London

Publication Date: 1837

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued

Edition: Second issue with mixed issue points.

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