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Lot 389

Sale 945 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
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Nov 9, 2021 4:00AM CT
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Nov 10, 2021 4:00AM CT
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DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Buckhurst Hill, Essex: n.p., 1910. 


19 volumes (including the index), 8vo (197 x 137 mm).  EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the addition of over 1,000 engraved plates, original watercolors, and other illustrations bound in on stubs, many window-mounted.  Contemporary half green morocco gilt, edges gilt (some light rubbing to extremities).  

AN UNUSUAL EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED SET, including numerous illustrations and engravings collected by John Coxall.  Comprising a visual history of the Pickwick Papers, illustrated material includes examples from "36 Original Character Illustrations to 'The Pickwick Papers' Drawn in colours by 'Kyd'" (parts 1 and 2), and various wrappers (some in facsimile), portraits, frontispieces, title-pages, various impressions of illustrations after Seymour and H. K. Brown, and several other views.  

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