Description: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens. First edition. In purple fine-diaper leather binding blind-stamped, blind-stamped spine lettered in gilt, pale yellow endpapers. Publisher: Chapman and Hall, London, 1837. First state of the frontispiece with “Veller”. Contains the two suppressed Buss plates on pages 69 and 74. All plates present and have edge darkening. Plates collated for 1st issue points and all but 7 of the 43 plates have the first issue points according the Smith bibliography. However later bibliographers have disagreed with some of these points. All internal flaws collate with the Smith bibliography the exception of two. However Smith indicates that the flaws listed are limited to those found in most copies of the one-volume first edition. 609 pages. Binding is in near fine condition. Two inch separation at the front gutter to the bottom. Contents clean, darkening to plates noted above. A scarce original cloth and given the first issue points noted. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #C-116. Price: $10,000.
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Binding: Leather
Subject: Literature
Year Printed: 1837
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Original/Facsimile: Original
Publisher: Chapman & Hall
Place of Publication: London
Author: Charles Dickens
