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Lot 127
Sale 654 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 1, 2019
9:59AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$300 -
400
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$375
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Lot Description
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837.
8vo (210 x 131 mm). Half-title; engraved frontispiece, engraved title, 41 engraved plates by R. Seymour and H. K. Browne ("Phiz"). (Plates darkened and spotted as usual, some light spotting.) Contemporary half morocco, marbled boards (some light wear).
FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, text with first issue points listed in Smith, except: text unbroken last line p.26, signature on p.35 unobliterated. The plates are in the first state except the first 4 Seymour plates (second state), the frontispiece is the first plate having stool with four stripes and signature "Phiz fecit" is divided left and right by the middle shield at foot, engraved title is first plate having "Tony Veller" on the sign and signed "Phiz fecit"; the two plates by Buss are present. Grolier English 78; Smith I: 3.
Property of an Illinois collector


