Author: Charles Dickens
Title: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Description: London, Chapman and Hall, 1887. Cloth. A smart illustrated limited edition of Dickens' sequence of related adventures originally written for serialisation in a periodical. Complete in two volumes. Limited to two thousand copies in five hundred of which the plates are printed on Indian Paper. Volume one is illustrated with frontispiece, vignette, and twenty-eight plates. Volume two is illustrated with frontispiece, nineteen plates, a facsimile of an inscription by Charles Dickens in Mr. Edward Chapman's Presentation Copy of "The Pickwick Paper's" and a facsimile of the green wrapper to part one. Collated complete. Six of the above plates are published here for the first time, as detailed in the text. A collection of related adventure stories originally indented for serialisation in a periodical. The novel follows Samuel Pickwick, a kind and wealthy gentleman who is founder of the Pickwick Club. Along with three other members of the club, he journeys to places away from London and reports back on his findings. Written by Charles Dickens, a English writer and social critic considered one of the greatest novelists of the Victorian era. Illustrated by Robert Seymour, a British illustrator, Robert William Buss, a British Victorian artist, Hablot K. Browne, an English artist and illustrator known by his pen name of Phiz, and John Leech, an English caricaturist and illustrator. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Minor loss to the tail of the spine of volume one and a small split to the cloth at the head of the spine of volume two. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the board. Front hinge tender to volume one but remains firm. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with some spotting throughout. A small tear has been repaired with paper tape to page xix of volume one. Good . Ill.: R. Seymour; R. W. Buss; Hablot K. Browne; J. Leech. Good .
Keywords: Posthumous Papers Pickwick Club Papers R. Seymour; R. W. Buss; Hablot K. Browne; J. Leech
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Title: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Description: London, Chapman and Hall, 1887. Cloth. A smart illustrated limited edition of Dickens' sequence of related adventures originally written for serialisation in a periodical. Complete in two volumes. Limited to two thousand copies in five hundred of which the plates are printed on Indian Paper. Volume one is illustrated with frontispiece, vignette, and twenty-eight plates. Volume two is illustrated with frontispiece, nineteen plates, a facsimile of an inscription by Charles Dickens in Mr. Edward Chapman's Presentation Copy of "The Pickwick Paper's" and a facsimile of the green wrapper to part one. Collated complete. Six of the above plates are published here for the first time, as detailed in the text. A collection of related adventure stories originally indented for serialisation in a periodical. The novel follows Samuel Pickwick, a kind and wealthy gentleman who is founder of the Pickwick Club. Along with three other members of the club, he journeys to places away from London and reports back on his findings. Written by Charles Dickens, a English writer and social critic considered one of the greatest novelists of the Victorian era. Illustrated by Robert Seymour, a British illustrator, Robert William Buss, a British Victorian artist, Hablot K. Browne, an English artist and illustrator known by his pen name of Phiz, and John Leech, an English caricaturist and illustrator. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Minor loss to the tail of the spine of volume one and a small split to the cloth at the head of the spine of volume two. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the board. Front hinge tender to volume one but remains firm. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with some spotting throughout. A small tear has been repaired with paper tape to page xix of volume one. Good . Ill.: R. Seymour; R. W. Buss; Hablot K. Browne; J. Leech. Good .
Keywords: Posthumous Papers Pickwick Club Papers R. Seymour; R. W. Buss; Hablot K. Browne; J. Leech
Price: GBP 75.00 = appr. US$ 107.10 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 870T80
- Book number: 870T80
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