DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, April 1836 - November 1837.

20 parts in 19, 8vo. Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title-page, and 41 engraved plates by or after R. Seymour, R.W. Buss, and Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"). (Plates in a few parts with some marginal toning, some minor chipping and a few short tears occasionally affecting text.) Original printed green pictorial wrappers (most spines repaired, some light toning, staining, and soiling, slight chipping to edges); slipcase. Provenance: Various signatures or initials to a few parts; Thomas Hatton, Bibliographer of Charles Dickens (annotations, see below).

THE THOMAS HATTON COPY, WITH ANNOTATIONS BY HIM in pencil as follows: "Wants Buss Plates" on p. 51 of part 3 (but all the Buss plates are present); "10 1st issue" on the inside rear wrapper of part 10; on the verso of plate 26 "1st issue no newspaper on floor;" on the verso of plate 27 "2nd issue no hat on front bench" (but according to Hatton and Cleaver, this makes the plate a first plate, first state); "93/20" on the final leaf of the advertisement at the end of parts 14 and 17; on plate 36 "at p. 504” in part 17.

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS OF DICKENS'S FIRST NOVEL.

WITH ALL TEXT, PLATES, WRAPPERS, SLIPS, AND ADVERTISEMENTS as called for in Hatton & Cleaver and in the first state, except for the following: the outside front wrapper in part 3 has "With Illustrations;" the inside front wrappers are not in the first state for parts 1, 4-5, and 8; the inside back wrappers are not in the first state for parts 1, 4-5 and 9; the outside back wrappers are not in the first states for parts 1-5 and 9; the front advertisements are lacking in parts 1-10, and part 13 is lacking the 4pp. unnumbered of "Pigot's Coloured Views," while part 19/20 is lacking the address leaf; the back advertisements are lacking in parts 1-12 and part 19/20 is lacking the 18pp. "Mechi's Catalogue." The text is in the first issue as called for by Hatton and Cleaver in parts 10-19/20, while the remaining parts have the following first issue points: in part 1, the "d" in "ardour" is perfect (p.3, line 3), the "s" in "started" is perfect (p.23, line 29), and there is no signature "E" on p. 25; in part 2 the last line is "was draw out" on p. 28 and the figure "7" in the pagination on p. 37 is mutilated; in part 3, the last line is a misprinted semicolon after "family" (p. 51); in part 7 the "r" in "for" in line is upside-down (p. 202, line 30) and the date is "Sep. 28." The plates are the first plates, with the plates in part 12 in the first state, with the following exceptions: the plates in part I are in the first state of the second Seymour plate; the plates in parts 4 and 6, as well as plate 19 (part 8) and plate 35 (part 16), are the second or later plates.

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, April 1836 - November 1837.

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, April 1836 - November 1837.