Lot 160
Dickens, Charles
Auction: 10 June 2009 at 12:00 BST
£300
Description
The posthumous papers of The Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition in book form, early issue, with the footnote on p. 9, "S. Veller" on p. 342 line 5, Pickwick misspelled "Picwkick" on p. 375, half title, frontispiece, additional illustrated title [with "Weller" on sign, later issue altered from "Veller" in earlier issues], 41 plates, original blind-stamped cloth gilt, rubbed at edges, head of hinges splitting, foxing, plates browned at edges; and another copy of the same edition in contemporary half calf, some plates torn (2)
Footnote
CHECK Smith I:3 (pp. 19-27). Grolier, English One Hundred 78. Eckel, p. 56.