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The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club / by Charles Dickens ; with forty-three illustrations, by R. Seymour, and Phiz.

Accession number
PML 142475-76
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Published
London : Chapman and Hall, 1837.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Issued in book form in 1 or in 2 volumes (cf. Eckel, p. 55); the original parts (20 nos. in 19) were issued Apr. 1836-Nov. 1837.
This is the 2 volume issue of the 1st ed. in book form, with the separate t.p. in v. 2.
Text with some marks of early issue, including footnote on p. 9 and "Chapter III" on p. 25 and 27. Cf. Eckel, p. 57.
"London: Bradbury and Evans, printers, Whitefriars."--Colophon, v. 2.
This copy includes the 7 Seymour plates, the 2 R.W. Buss plates and the 34 Phiz (H.K. Browne) plates; many of the plates are 1st plate or 1st state, including added t.p. and frontispiece to vol. 1; all as issued with the parts, without captions. Cf. Miller & Strange, p. 7-65.
Description
2 v. (xiv, [2], 609 p., [43] leaves of plates) : ill. (etchings) ; 22 cm
Provenance
Inscription of W.M. Patten, dated March 24, 1838, on both t.p.'s, with ownership stamp with initials "WMP" on the half t.p. of v. 1; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Green morocco tooled in gilt with pink silk doublures.
Classification
Department