1st Edition THE PICKWICK PAPERS

THE PICKWICK PAPERS 1st Edition
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

by CHARLES DICKENS

Forty-three illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz

1837 Chapman & Hall, (Publisher) London
Bradbury and Evans, Printers, Whitefriars London

8 5/8 x 5 7/8 “, 609 pp.

VORRELL BINDER (printed verso, 1st free endpaper)
1/2 Moroccan (with gilt double line edge) / marbled boards matched to marbled end-papers.
Intricate, lacy gilt spine with five raised bands, Top edge gilt. Deep-set end-banding.

Text block overall tight and clean (an interior section of text, about 10 pages, slightly creased and with a 3/8” tear).

1st edition with early printing characteristics
including:
engraved title page has "Tony Weller' on signboard above the inn door;
p. 9 has notation on bottom (the footnote that was later suppressed),
p. 342 line 5 reads 'S.Veller',
p. 260 line 29 reads "holding", p 375 headline spelled 'Picwkick',
p. 400 line 21 'his friends' …

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