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Lot 102
Sale 5724 - Books and Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2022
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Live / Philadelphia
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[Literature] Dickens, Charles The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition in book form, first issue (with all seven of Smith's first issue points, and with the Buss plates). 8vo. xiv, (ii), 609 pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece (first state), engraved vignette title-page (first state), and 41 engraved plates (many in first state), by R. Seymour, Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne), and Robert William Buss. Full red morocco, stamped in gilt, cocked, front and rear boards scratched; by R. Bedford; scattered foxing to plates and text. Smith 1, 3; Eckel pp.17-58