Oct 10, 2019 - Sale 2519

Sale 2519 - Lot 263

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
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 straight-grained brown morocco, blindstamped borders on covers within triple gilt fillet rules, spine stamped in blind and gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, repair to front joint; gilt turn-ins; front hinge split but holding, shelf label and bookplate to front pastedown; scattered foxing, chiefly to plate margins and versos. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837

Additional Details

first edition in book form. Early issue with the points as follows: page 43, second paragraph below Chapter V, line 1 reads "ruined wall" in the singular; signature "E" present on p. 25; first state of the title-page with "Veller" for "Weller"; and "hodling" on p. 260 line 29. Grolier English 78; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 3-88; Smith I:3.