Author: Charles Dickens
Title: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Description: London, Chapman and Hall, 1837. First Edition (later issue). Leather. 609p w/plates. A hardcover book bound in 19th-century 3/4 black leather with marbled boards and endpapers. The spine has been inconspicuously rebacked with matching leather, retaining the majority of the original gilt-decorated backstrip (though there is a chip out of the middle, filled in with the newer leather). Edges and surfaces of cover lightly rubbed. Early owner's small signature on first blank leaf. The last page of text, once torn, has been delicately repaired. The plates show general discoloration, most heavily at the top and bottom edges; some are later issues with "Chapman & Hall" printed on them. Otherwise, the text is unmarked and the binding tight. A sturdy, handsome copy of Dickens' first novel in very good condition. This is a later issue of the first edition, without the suppressed Robert Seymour plates (however, the title page credits the illustrations to "R. Seymour and Phiz"). Some plates state they are printed by Chapman and Hall while others have no printer identified. Very Good .

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