Jun 17, 2010 - Sale 2217

Sale 2217 - Lot 367

Price Realized: $ 738
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
DICKENS, CHARLES. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Additional engraved title (second state with "Weller" on sign), etched frontispiece, and 43 plates by Phiz, Buss, and R. Seymour (mixed states). 8vo, 3/4 gilt-decorated burgundy morocco with all edges trimmed and gilt, by Bayntun; scattered very light foxing. London, 1837

Additional Details

first edition in book form. First state points for text include: "hodling" for "holding" on page 260, "this friends" for "his friends" on page 400, line 21; an imperfect "F" in the word "OF" in the headline on page 432, "Weller" in the sign on the engraved title page is in a later state, changed from "Veller." Includes the suppressed Buss Plates on pages 69 & 74. Eckel 17; Smith 3.