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Lot 99
Sale 1023 - The Library of Jack Charles Davis, Sold to Support Charitable Institutions
May 3, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$300 -
400
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$219
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Lot Description
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837.
8vo (208 x 128 mm). 43 engraved plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), Robert William Buss, and Robert Seymour (including engraved frontispiece and engraved title). (Lacking half-title, some staining.) 20th-century red morocco gilt, purple cloth boards, marbled edges (some wear, corners bumped, hinges weak with front hinge reinforced).
FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, text with most of the first issue points listed in Smith, with most plates in Smith’s first state. Gimbel A15; Smith I:3.
This lot is located in Chicago.