Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. With forty-three illustrations, by R. Seymour and Phiz, London, Chapman and Hall, Strand, 1837. xiv, (2), 609 pp. With 41 of 43 plates (lacks frontispiece and title page vignette). Rebound in halfcloth using the original marbled boards and original title vignette on spine. Plates slightly browned, else fairly good copy of the first edition of this book.

*The first edition, first version contains the following characteristics: 1) errata on reverse of Directions to the binder; 2) 2 chapters III (p. 25 and 27) and an 'E' at the bottom of p. 27; 3) engravings only with page numbers, no title.