DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, text with all but one of the first issue points listed in Smith.
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DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837.
8vo (208 x 128 mm). 43 engraved plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), Robert William Buss, and Robert Seymour (including engraved frontispiece and additional engraved vignette title-page). (Lacking half-title, some minor spotting.) 20th-century calf gilt, red and green morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges gilt, stamp-signed by RIVIERE & SON (spine sunned).
FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, text with most of the first issue points listed in Smith, this copy without signature E on p.25, but with "inde-licate" corrected on p.341. With most plates in Smith’s first state. Gimbel A15; Grolier English78; Smith I:3.
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