DICKENS, CHARLES. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Lacking half-title. 43 engraved plates by R. Seymour, Robert William Buss and Hablot K. Browne ["Phiz"]. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 calf and marbled boards, spine in compartments with lettering label, rubbed and scuffed with some exposure; ownership signature; contents with intermittent spotting and toning, heaviest to plate margins. First edition in book form. Early issue with the following points noted: page 43, second paragraph below Chapter V, line 1 reads "ruined wall" in the singular; signature "E" present on p. 25; second state state of the title-page with "Weller" for "Veller." Grolier English 78; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 3-88; Smith I:3. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837