Oct 28, 2021 - Sale 2584

Sale 2584 - Lot 144

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(DICKENS, CHARLES.) Crowquill, Alfred (illus.). Pictures Picked from the Pickwick Papers. 40 handcolored etchings (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, 222 x 141 mm). 8vo, original green wrappers, front and rear covers detached with minor soiling and short closed tears; contents quite clean with colors bright; supplied folding green case with gilt lettering. First edition of this format. "A portfolio of 40 handcolored etchings, being faithful copies of Forrester's 'Pickwickian' lithographs of 1837 [...] The title is taken from the outside of the front wrapper, although the original title 'The Pickwickians' appears on the first print" (Gimbel H1079). Elusive Dickensiana, according to Rare Book Hub and ABPC, the first example to appear at auction in a decade. [London: F.T. Sabin, 1880]