DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, 1837, 8°, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, engraved title, frontispiece and 41 plates by R. Seymour and Phiz (occasional spotting), later red morocco gilt by Bayntun Riviere with medallion of Dickens to upper cover and facsimile signature to lower cover, gilt inner dentelled, g.e. [Eckel p. 17ff; Sadleir 698]

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DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, 1837, 8°, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, engraved title, frontispiece and 41 plates by R. Seymour and Phiz (occasional spotting), later red morocco gilt by Bayntun Riviere with medallion of Dickens to upper cover and facsimile signature to lower cover, gilt inner dentelled, g.e. [Eckel p. 17ff; Sadleir 698]

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A fine copy, extra-illustrated with the two cancelled plates by Buss. The engraved title-page is in the first state with the name above the inn door reading "Veller". Many other plates are also in the first state.

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