DICKENS, CHARLES. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club...With Illustrations by R. Seymour, R.W. Buss, Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz") and J. Leech. London: Chapman and Hall, 1887. 2 Vols., large 8vo, dark green morocco gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, spines faded, free endpapers wrinkled. The Victoria Edition, one of 1500 copies on ordinary paper, published to honor the fiftieth anniversary of the original edition of Pickwick Papers, issued the year of Queen Victoria's ascension to the throne (1837), inserted facsimile parts wrapper and 50 inserted plates as issued, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH THE INSERTION OF 27 ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR DRAWINGS BY F.W. PAILTHORPE illustrating scenes from the novel. (2)