Lot 1304 , Dickens, Charles - The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. First Edition. engraved pictorial and printed titles, frontis and 41 plates (by H.K. Browne & Robert Seymour)

° Dickens, Charles - The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. First Edition. engraved pictorial and printed titles, frontis and 41 plates (by H.K. Browne & Robert Seymour); additionally there are 33 plates by Thomas Onwhyn, produced for this work (and issued separately), but occasionally found bound-in with this edition; later 19th century half calf and marbled boards, gilt panelled spine with maroon label, marbled e/ps. Chapman and Hall, 1837
£300-400

Condition:
Some wear head of spine and rubbed at tail, slightly at corners, inner hinges cracked (back slightly), printed title and text mostly clean, pictorial title soiled, but mostly marginal, as are most plts). (iii)-xvi, 609 pp. (lacks half title). Smith (Pt.1)3 - most usual flaws noted, e.g. p/24 damage O; p/53 i dot missing; p.60 ditto; pp.375 Piwkick; p.553 Considdring (etc.); Inn notice - Tony Veller