May 16, 2017 - Sale 2448

Sale 2448 - Lot 70

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,500
DICKENS, CHARLES. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. 20 parts in 19. 43 etched plates after Robert Seymour; Robert William Buss; and Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"). 8vo, original printed blue-green wrappers, restoration to wrappers as usual, scattered creasing and edge fraying, ownership signatures to front wrapper of several issues; felt-lined full morocco drop-back case (defective). London: Chapman & Hall, 1836-37

Additional Details

first edition in original monthly parts, mixed issue. Includes the suppressed plates by Buss in part 3. Pickwick Advertiser present in parts 10-19/20 (in whole or partly). Two of the seven "addresses" and other ads present. Vignette title with "Veller" for "Weller." Hatton & Cleaver pp. 3-88.