The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
London: Chapman & Hall, 1837. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xiv, [3], 2-609, [1] pp. Recent full brown calf, spine in five compartments with gold tooling and rules, a red leather label lettered in gold on the spine. Marbled recent endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and vignette title page, and with 43 plates by Robert Seymour (first 7 plates following the vignette titlepage), Robert William Buss (2 plates following those of Seymour), and H. K. Browne ("Phiz") (frontispiece, vignette titlepage, and final 32 plates). First edition bound from the parts. Bound without the half-title, mixed issue but many earlier points present (both Buss plates are included, sign in vignette titlepage reads "Veller" and plate is signed "Phiz fecit", pp. 341 and 342 are Hatton & Cleaver variant A, early plates lack captions but have page numbers, later plates lack both). Eckel 17-58; Gimbel A-15; Hatton & Cleaver 3-88; Smith I 3. A pleasing, attractively bound copy of Dickens' first novel. Very Good. Item #00007177
Binding is Fine, the leaves show some toning and light foxing, tiny tears to pages 237 and 273 (not affecting the text).
Price: $1,350.00