The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (The Pickwick Papers)
Author:
DICKENS, CHARLES & SEYMOUR, R (Illus) & PHIZ (Illus)
Title:
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (The Pickwick Papers)
Publisher:
Chapman and Hall 1837
Description:
FIRST EDITION, REBOUND, LATER IMPRESSION, super octavo, marbled heavy boards, black lettering to title plate on black faux leather spine, frontispiece/vignettes to prelims, xiv + (2) + 609pp, illus/plates, lacks most early state issue points: 'E' present at bottom pp25, 'holding' pp260, '7' in p 276 same level as other numbers i.e. normal, pp341 line 1 inbe-licate, line 5 inscriptino, pp342 S.Veller uncorrected, pp400 his friends line 21, lacks plate opp. pp69 and 74, frontispiece reads Weller not Veller, VG (moderate tanning to title plate on spine, light tanning to page edges, moderate to heavy foxing/marking to prelims & other pages sporadically throughout, pgs 3 - illus opp. pg 4 detached but present, pgs 43-48 misbound out of sequence, minor cracking to front & rear gutter)
Keywords:
first editions (rebound, later impression) classic English literature Charles Dickens novels illustrated
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