May 12, 2011 - Sale 2247

Sale 2247 - Lot 201

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(BINDING--RIVIERE & SON.) Dickens, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. 16 color plates reproducing paintings by C. E. Brock. Half-title. Large 8vo, navy morocco richly gilt by Riviere & Son with large pictorial panel of multi-colored morocco onlays on front cover after the illustration facing page 134 (" 'Take this little villain away,' said the agonised Mr. Pickwick"), and centerpiece of wreath enclosing bust portrait of Dickens on rear cover, minor surface wear on front cover panel, joints lightly rubbed. Bookplate of Cornelius J. Hauck. London, Bombay, & Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., (1930)