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DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club . London: Chapman and Hall, 1837.
DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club . London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. 8 o (209 x 131 mm). 43 engraved plates (including engraved title) by R. Seymour, R.W. Buss, and Hablot K. Browne ["Phiz"], this copy EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with plates by Thomas Onwhyn ["Sam. Weller"] used to illustrate The Pickwick Club (some browning to plates, a few with minor edgewear or spotting). Red morocco gilt, top edges gilt; cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY. Text with the first issue points: textually nearly perfect with all points listed in Hatton & Cleaver and Miller & Strange except: p. 10, last line, no mark between "r" and "u" in "rum"; p. 17, last "e" appears broken; p. 303, second "3" present. This copy therefore contains the very rare issue points: p. 25, no signature "E"; p. 34 has the parentheses within lines 14 and 15 from bottom; p. 244, line 9, quad mark present between "advice" and "Sir"; and p. 261, X2 mis-signed N2. The plates are in the first state before letters except the first 4 Seymour plates (second state) and plate 5, "The Dying Clown" (second state, after the signature); the vignette title has the reading "Veller"; the two plates by Buss are present; the plates at pp. 154 and 169 are in the first state with the page numbers interchanged; plates at page 343 and 358 are without page numbers. Grolier English 78; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 3-88.