Charles Dickens - The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1912. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated edition of Charles Dickens's first novel. First thus. First thus. Illustrated with twenty-five colour plates with tissue guards. Collated complete. Charles Dickens's first novel, a sequence of loosely related adventures written for serialization in a periodical. The novel's protagonist Samuel Pickwick, Esquire is a kind and wealthy old gentleman, the founder and perpetual president of the Pickwick Club. He suggests that he and three other "Pickwickians" should make journeys to places remote from London and report on their findings to the other members of the club. Written by Charles Dickens, an English writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Illustrated by Frank Reynolds, a British artist known for his many illustrations in several books by Charles Dickens. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with light bumping and rubbing to the extremities. Minor loss to the head and tail of the spine. Joints starting but firm. The odd mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd handling mark. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good . Ill.: Frank Reynolds. Very Good .

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