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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
London: Chapman & Hall, 1837. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [5], vi-xiv, [3], 2-609, [1] pp. Bound in recent brown calf, spine with red morocco label and 4 raised bands with gilt ruling and gilt lettering, patterned endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and vignette title page, and with 43 plates by Robert Seymour (first 7 plates following the vignette titlepage), Robert William Buss (2 plates following those of Seymour), and H. K. Browne ("Phiz") (frontispiece, vignette titlepage, and final 32 plates). First edition bound from the parts. Bound without the half-title, mixed issue but many earlier points present (both Buss plates are included, sign in vignette titlepage reads "Veller" and plate is signed "Phiz fecit", pp. 341 and 342 are Hatton & Cleaver variant A, early plates lack captions but have page numbers, later plates lack both). Smith I 3, Eckel, pp. 17-58; Gimbel A-15; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 3-88. A pleasing, attractively bound copy of Dickens' first novel. Modern binding is close to Fine, scattered mild darkening and foxing to some leaves and plates, tiny tears to pages 237 and 273 (not affecting the text).
Synopsis
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (commonly known as The Pickwick Papers ) is the first novel published by Charles Dickens. The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club catapulted the 24-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle &, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr. Pickwick, & his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election, via the Fleet debtor’s prison, characters & incidents sprang to life from Dickens’s pen, to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humor & literary invention The novel was published in 19 issues over 20 months by Chapman and Hall, London in 1836. After the publication the widow of illustrator Robert Seymour claimed that the idea for the novel was originally her husband's; however, in his preface to the 1867 edition, Dickens strenuously denied any specific input, writing that "Mr. Seymour never originated or suggested an incident, a phrase, or a word, to be found in the book.
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- Bookseller
- Evening Star Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00007177
- Title
- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Chapman & Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1837
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