The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London.
Chapman and Hall, 1837.
First edition, early issue.
8vo.
xiv, [2], 609pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title page, and a further 41 engraved plates by R. Seymour and Phiz (i.e. H. K. Browne). Contemporary dark green half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled boards, black morocco lettering-piece. Later recased. Extremities rubbed and dulled, corners bumped. Bookseller's ticket of T. Evans of Birmingham to FEP, near contemporary inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP, plates heavily foxed, paper repair to verso of one plate, slight marginal loss to another, scattered spotting.
A handsome copy of and early issue of the first edition in book form of Dickens' first novel.
£ 250.00
Antiquates Ref: 28995
