Author: Dickens, Charles,
Title: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
Description: London & Melbourne, Ward, Lock & Co Ltd, nd. G. Light brown cloth boards, black lettering and illustration, edge wear, of other publisher listings at back of book. Original preface observed they were "designed for the introduction of diverting characters and incidents; that no ingenuity of plot was attempted, or even at that time considered very feasible by the author in connexion with the desultory mode of publication adopted and that the machinery of the Club, proving cumbrous in the management, was gradually abandoned as the work progressed." Name "Milton" on front endpaper. This edition was inscribed to John Forster, biographer of Oliver Goldsmith, for his corrections of the proof sheets of the original edition; and in affectionate acknowledgement of the counsel, sympathy, and faithful friendship.

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