[Rarebooks] FS - Pickwick Papers 1st edition

[GREENFIELD BOOKS]

*DICKENS, CHARLES   /THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB./* 
London, Chapman and Hall, 1837, 1st edition. Thick 8vo, pp. xiv, 609. 
Bound in full brown calf, with gilt rules, devices, and lettering to the 
spine. The endpapers are plain.

¶ All 43 plates are present, as described in Smith, "Charles Dickens in 
the Original Cloth", although five of the plates are placed one page 
earlier than called for, and one plate is placed ten pages later. Seven 
of the plates are by Seymour, two by Buss, and the remainder by Phiz. 
Vignette title page plate shows "S. Veller" and "Phiz fecit". As is 
always the case with a bound first edition of this title, each of the 
plates is a "mixed bag" of first state, first plate, second plate etc. 
varieties of the plates. Our copy contains at least 33 "matches" to the 
status of plates found in most first edition copies, as stipulated by 
Smith; but it also contains 10 plates where the points are different, 
the majority of the differences suggesting a first plate, first state 
status. See also Eckel, "Bibliography of the Original Writings of 
Charles Dickens; Fitzgerald, "The History of Pickwick"; Hatton and 
Cleaver, "Bibliography of the Periodical Works of Charles Dickens"; 
Clendening, "A Handbook to Pickwick Papers". The contents of our copy 
show foxing, and there are a few very small (less than one inch) closed 
tears to the margins. The binding is tight, with minor rubbing to the 
extremities of the boards. Very small name sticker of Alfred Paul Bay 
(brother of J. Christian Bay, perhaps?) on inside front board. Overall, 
a good copy with a highly desirable number of first state "points".

Price: $6,000

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