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Lot 123

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$1,000 - 1,500

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DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Charles P. Johnson, editor. London: Chapman and Hall, n.d. [1887].


2 volumes, 4to. 50 photogravures (4 original to this edition), and 2 facsimiles (one original to this edition). Contemporary crushed olive morocco gilt, covers in a Derome-style with ornate filigree frame of acanthus leaves and many flowers, top edges gilt, others uncut, silk endpapers, gilt stamp-signed by Zaehnsdorf, ALSO WITH THEIR GILT EXHIBITION STAMP on rear pastedown (rebacked preserving original spine, extremities toned, few faint scuffs and a small stain to covers of vol.2, front free endpaper detached in vol.1).

LIMITED EDITION, number 6 of 8 copies, PRINTED ON JAPAN VELLUM, both volumes signed by the printers, publishers, and editor.



This lot is located in Chicago.

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