1837 Charles Dickens 1st/1st Pickwick Club Papers First Novel Social Satire RARE

1837 Charles Dickens 1^st/1^st Pickwick Club Papers First Novel Social Satire RARE

“Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.”

― Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers’

‘The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club’ was Charles Dickens very first novel. While it was popular in its own time, it was eventually overshadowed in popularity by Dickens’ other works including ‘A Christmas Carol’ ‘A Tale of Two Cities’, and ‘Oliver Twist’.

This fine first edition of ‘Pickwick Club’ features many of the expected first issue points! See below for a full list found in this example.

Item number: #30789

Price: $750

DICKENS, Charles.

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition, first printing

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • xiv, [2], 609, [1]
  • 41 illustrations by Phiz and Seymour
• Edition points:
  • signature ‘E’ to the foot of p.25
  • 43 – includes “ruined wall”; first line, 2^nd paragraph, chap V
  • 260, line 29 – includes “holding” in loose type
  • 261 – signature misprint “x2”
  • 261, line 6 – “Picvick” instead of “Pickwick”
  • 282 & p.299 – “Chapter XXVIII”
  • 303 – corrected pagination
  • 342., line 5 – includes “S. Veller”
  • 400, line 21 – “this friends” not corrected from “his friends”
  • 432, headline – f in “of” imperfect
  • 553, line 9 from bottom – “Considering” instead of ‘considdering’.
• References: Eckel 17;
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~8.5in X 5.5in (21.5cm x 13.5cm)

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