FIRST EDITION Pickwick Papers 1837 Charles DICKENS FINELY BOUND Illustrated Phiz

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FIRST EDITION: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz. London; Chapman and Hall; MDCCCXXXVII (1837).

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Finely bound by Hammond for Henry Sotherans booksellers, London.

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A stunning first edition in book form of Dickens' first work beautifully finely bound in full morocco.

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• 'Weller' for 'Veller' on frontispiece.

• 6 line errata page to verso of directions to the binder (pp.xv-xvi)

• 'E' signature to pp.25 and pp.27

• "S. Veller" pp.342

• Illustrations with numbers not captions

• Frontispiece chair with 4 stripes

• pp.69 and pp.74 plates to verso not present.
  

No copies of the first edition of the Pickwick Papers will have all of the first issue points as they were bound up from the original parts. The Veller and Weller frontispiece states were available simultaneously, with the 'Weller' state being the more common variant.

Size: 21.2 x 14.5 x 4.5 cm.

Condition: Very Good (VG+)

Text block extremely clean with very light toning and very sporadic very minor foxing. Contains 41 out of 43 plates including frontispiece. Very minor rubbing on spine. Tooled label present. Both boards securely attached with very minor wear to joints and hinges. Very minor scuffing on boards, near fine. Minor shelf wear. Very minor damage to headcap. Very minor scratches and very minor spots of gilt loss on page edges. Very small bookplate attached to front pastedown. Light toning and minor foxing on endpapers. Light toning and minor creases to the top corner of the frontispiece. Light toning and very minor foxing on title page. Plates prominently foxed as typical. Pencil inscription relating to the details of the book on endpaper.

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