From Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
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First Edition in Book Form with "S. Veller" on page 34, pages 400 and 432 with "his" and an unbroken "f" in the headline. The plates in early state with page numbers rather than the later issued plates with captions under the illustrations. Engraved frontispiece and title-page and with forty-three engraved illustrations by R. Seymour and H. K. Browne, Phiz . 8vo, bound in contemporary cloth, lettered in gilt on a red morocco label on the spine. xiv, 609 pp. A handsome copy, with some expected wear to the extremities. The plates with the typical browning or melowing. HANDSOME FIRST EDITION. "Pickwick was issued when Dickens name was just beginning to excite the attention of prescient publishers and be recognized by readers in search of entertaining novels . The publication of PICKWICK, which ran through twenty numbers, made for all time an English classic--a book representative of its age, exhibiting the life and the ideals of an important class of English folk, on the threshold of the Victorian era. Now, over a century and a half later, PICKWICK holds its assured place in the literature of our tongue, and, among all its author s works, seems to have the best chance of achieving what is known as immortality. The book was an improvisation. Dickens was led by his genius and by the indulgence of his jocuse fancy into picturing all the popular life which his varied experience in and out of London had made familiar to him. And it is a book that appeals throughout life--to the child and to the person of late years. (Gissing) Like others of Dickens creations, it is a masterpiece. This is a pleasingl copy in contemporary state. Seller Inventory # 33514
Bibliographic Details
Title: THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB
Publisher: London Chapman and Hall 1837
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
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