Nov 18, 2014 - Sale 2366

Sale 2366 - Lot 83

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
DICKENS, CHARLES. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Illustrated with 43 engraved plates by Seymour and Phiz. Half-title. 8vo, period full light brown calf paneled in gilt, spine tooled in gilt, red and green morocco lettering pieces, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, by Wallis, narrow 3/4-inch long skinning at extreme bottom of front cover, few faint surface impressions; short repaired marginal tear to plate facing p. 223, else text and plates fine; cloth slipcase. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837

Additional Details

first edition in book form. With the Buss plates, indicating an early issue, and first state of the title-page with "Veller" for "Weller." Attractively bound. Eckel, pp. 17-19.