The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

DICKENS Charles

Verlag: Chapman and Hall, London,, 1837

Beschreibung

First edition in book form. illustrated with humorous plates by Phiz and Robert Seymour. half burgundy leather binding over marbled boards in very good condition; excellent pastedown with two French bookplates; first edition with Weller on the engraved vignette to the title page (it was 'Veller' in the first issue); 'E' to the foot of pages 25 and 27; 'Chapter XXVIII' to both pages 282 and 299; 'inbe-licate' to page 341 lines 1 and 2; 'S. Veller' to page 342 line 5; 'Picwkick' to the running title of page 375; page 261 correctly signed 'X2'; second '3' in the pagination is present to page 303; five lines of footnotes to page 9; plates have captions instead of page numbers .Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title, and 39 plates.Half-title present. Inside text pages in very good condition; part of the plates with stains, sometimes especially on the margins; a few pages, as the title page, lack a little piece at the inferior corner; as a whole a beautiful copy of the first edition, lacks apparently 2 plates, possibly the Boss plates. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 8994

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

Verlag: Chapman and Hall, London,

Erscheinungsdatum: 1837

Einband: Couverture rigide

Zustand: Bon

Auflage: Edition originale