London: Chapman and Hall, April-September, 1847. In eight monthly parts. First "Cheap Edition". Frontispiece and prelims bound at rear of final part. Original limp printed green wrappers, variously worn and soiled, losses along spines, darkening to same, spine of Part I repaired, top corner of same repaired, creasing and wear along edges, contemporary bookbinder's ticket on front wrapper of Part V; all edges trimmed; Pickwick Advertiser wanting in Parts I, IV, VI, VII; ads wanting in Parts IV, presumably V, and in VI, and VII; dampstaining to frontispiece; scattered spotting and soiling to text; in cloth fall-down-back box, book-plates of Kenyon Starling and William E. Self on inner front panel. See Gimbel D5

Together with:

[Onwyhn, Thomas]
Twenty Two Plates to Illustrate the Cheap Edition of Pickwick...
London: J. Newman, (1847). 12mo. Illustrated with 22 plates after Thomas Onwyhn. Publisher's limp printed green wrappers, detached, reinforced with tape along central fold, scattered wear and creasing; plates loose and worn; foxing and soiling.

Scarce complete set of the first Cheap Edition of Dickens's Pickwick Papers, featuring a preface penned by him for this edition.

According to RBH, this is only the third complete set to come to auction since 1971.