Author: (Browne "Phiz", Hablot K.; Buss, R.W.; Seymour, Robert). Dickens, Charles.
Title: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens. With Forty-Three Illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz.
Description: London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. 1837. - Octavo, 8-1/4 inches high by 5 inches wide. Handsomely bound by Root and Son in full gilt decorated calf, with triple gilt borders and gilt tooled floral corner pieces. The spine is elaborately decorated in gilt with a floral pattern and is titled in gilt on leather labels between 5 raised bands. The binding is further enhanced with inner gilt dentelles and watered silk endleaves. All edges are gilt. The leather is slightly scuffed along the joints with minor rubbing along the edges and the loss of one number in the date on the spine label from rubbing. xiv, [2], & 609 pages, illustrated with a frontispiece, a pictorial title and 43 plates by R. Seymour, Phiz and Buss. The top front corners of the frontispiece and pictorial title page have been professionally repaired. There is some minor foxing to the endpapers and front & rear blanks. There is a small tear along the bottom inner edge of the frontispiece and a tiny insignificant chip to the bottom corner of one plate. A very attractive copy with unusually bright & clean plates.

First edition. With many, but not all, of the first issue points including the following: the two Buss plates are present; "Veller" for "Weller" on the title page; "Phiz fecit" surrounds the bottom tablet on the frontispiece; five lines of footnotes on page 9; a mark between "r" and "u" in "rum" on page 10; the final "e" on page 17 is broken; "S. Veller" is uncorrected 0n page 342, line 5; "this friends" for "his friends" on page 400, line 21. Most of the plates are in the first state with page numbers but lacking titles or the publisher's imprint. Very good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; ILLUSTRATED; CHARLES DICKENS; THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB; HABLOT K. BROWNE; PHIZ; ROBERT SEYMOUR; R.W. BUSS; FIRST EDITION; FIRST ISSUE; 1ST EDITION; ILLUSTRATIONS; 19TH CENTURY; NOVEL; FICTION; PLATES; ETCHINGS; ROOT AND SON B

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