Description
The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman & Hall, 1837. First English book edition, mixed issue (with signature 'E' on p.25 and pagination on p.26, 'S. Veller' on p.342, frontispiece and vignette title-page in the first state, plates 1, 2 and 4 are the first state of the second Seymour plate, 3 is the second state of the first plate, 5-7 are the first state, 8 and 9 are the 'Phiz' plates, plates 12-13 and 17-21 are the first state, 10-11 and 14-15 the second state, 23-24 are the second plate, the remainder are first plates), 8vo, half title, etched frontispiece and vignette title-page and 41 other plates by Robert Seymour, R.W. Browne and H.K. Browne ('Phiz'), publisher's green cloth, covers embossed diagonally with alternating double rows of interlocking crescent devices and squares, "Pickwick Club" in gilt on spine, collector's black silk slipcase, contemporary inscription on half-title, some spotting and browning, neatly recased