The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. One volume edition, early printing. Leather bound. xiv; 609pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 3/4 leather with marbled paper over boards. Rebacked with new leather spine and endsheets. Corners touched up. Frontispiece, half title illustration, and 41 illustrated plates. Lacking the Buss plates opposite p. 69 and p. 74. Boards rubbed. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown. Darkening and foxing to the plates. Pages toned. Several pages with either light or small stains. Tape repairs to a few pages. Small loss to bottom fore-edge corner of p. 485/86, with no loss to the text. Prominent repairs to illustration at p. 313. Eckel, pp. 19-27. Smith I, 3.
With the internal flaws (General) and first issue points listed in Smith, with the exception of the following: P. 26 printed "POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF." Words "the" and "T" of "Transactions" is fully printed on p. 26. P. 35- signature "F" not partially obliterated. P. 178- no quotation marks at all at end of last line. P. 328- type not loose in "Posthumous". Signature "E" present. P. 260 - "holding". P. 267- "7" in page number not higher. P. 400 - "his friends" Very Good Minus. Item #71383
With illustrations by Robert Seymour and Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"). The first novel by Charles Dickens, written when he was twenty-four. According to his bibliographer, John C. Eckel, "its publication placed the author on a solid foundation from which he was never removed... It is quite probable that only Shakespeare's Works, the Bible and perhaps the English Prayer Book, exceed 'Pickwick Papers' in circulation."
Price: $300.00