DICKENS CHARLES The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

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DICKENS, CHARLES. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Lacking half-title. 43 engraved plates by R. Seymour and Hablot K. Browne ["Phiz"]. 8vo, contemporary full brown calf, covers gilt-ruled, spine tooled in gilt in compartments, morocco lettering pieces in 2, scattered mottling to covers, rubbing with light exposure to corners and lower extremities; Leonard Clow bookplate to front pastedown; intermittent foxing chiefly to plates, heaviest to blank margins, newsprint clippings laid down to 3 blank pages at end. London: Chapman and Hall, 1838

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first edition, later issue, with the two Buss plates replaced with those by Phiz. Textual points as follows: page 43, second paragraph below Chapter V, line 1 reads "ruined wall" in the singular; with the rare signature misprint on p. 261, reading X2; with signature "E" present on p. 25; and additional engraved title reading "Veller." Grolier English 78; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 3-88; Smith I:3.