Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 447

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
[DICKENSIANA.] Reynolds, G.W.M. Pickwick Abroad, or The Tour in France. 20 parts in 19. Forty inserted plates by Alfred Crowquill. 8vo, pale yellow wrappers, light rubbing to backstrips and wrapper fore-edges, last part with repaired tear to front cover through plates; custom chemise and 3/4 morocco pull-off case. London: Sherwood and Co., [1838-39]

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scarce original parts issue. Precedes the more common 1839 Thomas Tegg edition in book form; see Sadleir 2038; Wolff 5777. "The best of all the Dickens plagiarisms" (James, Fiction For the Working Man, p. 55).