The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club with Forty-Three Illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz

Dickens, Charles

Published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1837

About this Item

609p + Address. Octavo, illustrated with frontispiece, title page and 41 illustrations, First edition in book form bound in full brown morocco bordered in gilt, spine with raised bands and titled in gilt. Marbled edges. Mixed issue as is typical with many first issue points including 5 line footnote page 9, dot between 'r' and'u' in 'rum' in the last line of page 10, with the signature 'E' present on page 25 and 27, without the parenthesis in lines 14 and 15 from the bottom on page 34, with the quotation mark indistinct before "Sir" in the ninth line of page 244; page 261 correctly signed 'x2'; with the second '3' in the page number present to page 303;'Pickwick' to the running title of page 375;'this friends' on page 400, line 21; and with incomplete 'F' in headline of page 32;Majority of plates with page number and not titled. The plates are VERY foxed. Bookplate and collector's plate in rear cover upside down. Seller Inventory # 49795

Bibliographic Details

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

Publisher: Chapman and Hall, London

Publication Date: 1837

Binding: Full leather

Condition: Very good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition.