DICKENS, CHARLES. The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall 1837. 8vo, original slate or purplish black fine-diaper cloth, covers and spine panelled in blind, spine gilt-lettered, uncut, pale yellow endpapers, spine and edges of lower cover faded, back cover just cracked with paste-down torn, a few plates slightly creased and some darkened at edges, frontispiece foxed and offset onto vignette title. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, 43 steel engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne and Robert Seymour, plates 10 and 11 each by Browne and replacing plates by Buss. Sadleir 698; Smith I, no. 3. | Christie's

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DICKENS, CHARLES. The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall 1837. 8vo, original slate or purplish black fine-diaper cloth, covers and spine panelled in blind, spine gilt-lettered, uncut, pale yellow endpapers, spine and edges of lower cover faded, back cover just cracked with paste-down torn, a few plates slightly creased and some darkened at edges, frontispiece foxed and offset onto vignette title. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, 43 steel engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne and Robert Seymour, plates 10 and 11 each by Browne and replacing plates by Buss. Sadleir 698; Smith I, no. 3.

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DICKENS, CHARLES. The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall 1837. 8vo, original slate or purplish black fine-diaper cloth, covers and spine panelled in blind, spine gilt-lettered, uncut, pale yellow endpapers, spine and edges of lower cover faded, back cover just cracked with paste-down torn, a few plates slightly creased and some darkened at edges, frontispiece foxed and offset onto vignette title. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, 43 steel engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne and Robert Seymour, plates 10 and 11 each by Browne and replacing plates by Buss. Sadleir 698; Smith I, no. 3.

Provenance: G. & J. Robinson Booksellers, Liverpool, contemporary label on inner cover -- "Mr. Harvey Walton Priory", pencil inscription on recto of front endpaper -- Alain de Suzannet, engraved bookplate.