Accession number:
PML 143007
Published:
London : Chapman and Hall, [1874?]
Description:
xii, 400 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations (wood engravings) ; 26 cm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Series title and edition statement from front cover.
Date of publication from Cook; Ray identifies the Pickwick papers as the first volume of Chapman and Hall's Household edition of Dickens issued 1871-1879, and gives the book a date of 1871; Cook, however, gives the publication date as March of 1874 and cites a printed publisher's announcement from June of 1871 identifying Oliver Twist as the first volume to be published in the series later that year.
Illustrated with 4 wood engraved plates, including frontispiece, and 52 textual illustrations by Dalziel after H.K. Browne.
Text printed in double columns.
"Printed by Virtue and Co., City Road, London."--Colophon.
Binding:
Publisher's green cloth blocked in black and gold.
Provenance:
Signature of Forrest Reid on front flyleaf; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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