The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.

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8vo, Contemporary 3/4 leather and marbled boards. Front board detached, rear hinge repaired. Foxing throughout. Repairs to frontispiece and title page. First Edition in book form with 'S. Veller' on page 342, line 5; 'this friends' for 'his friends' on page 400, line 21 and 'f' in 'of' imperfect in the headline on page 432. Etched vignette title page, frontispiece, 41 plates by Robert Seymour, R. W. Buss, and H. K. Browne. The two Buss plates present (facing pages 69 and 74), otherwise all plates in early states with page numbers as called for but no titles or imprints, and the vignette title-page with the signboard reading "Veller" (corrected to "Weller" in later issues). "Never was a book received with more rapturous enthusiasm than that which greeted the Pickwick Papers!" (Allibone I:500). Somewhat less that rapturous enthusiasm greets this particular copy, which could use some love. Priced accordingly. N° de ref. del artículo JC14430

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