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Lot 91

Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
Lots Open
Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$400 - 600
Price Realized
$520
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DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837.


8vo. Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title-page, and 41 engraved plates by Robert Seymour, Robert William Buss (the early "suppressed" plates), and Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"). (Wear along fore-edge of frontispiece and engraved title; light toning and foxing to plates; scattered spotting to text.) Full green levant, decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges trimmed, gilt dentelles, stamp-signed by Morrell; slipcase. Provenance: Kenyon Starling (bookplate); William E. Self (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, with six of Smith's seven first issue points. Smith I, 3; Hatton and Cleaver, pp.3-88; Eckel, pp.17-58.


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