DICKENS, Charles.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club … with forty-three illustrations, by R. Seymour and Phiz.
London, Chapman & Hall, 1837.
8vo, pp. [iii]-xiv, [2], 609, with 41 plates; bound without the half-title, plates in first impression with the ‘V’ in the Weller of the engraved title vignette; frontispiece, title, and plates oxidised as usual, minor closed tear in frontispiece; contemporary dark green half roan with non-pareil marbled sides; rubbed and worn, but sound.
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club … with forty-three illustrations, by R. Seymour and Phiz.
First edition, first issue. The Pickwick Papers was serialised in twenty parts from April 1836, the novel reaching its conclusion in November 1837, when it was also released as a three-decker. It was both Dickens’s most popular work and the launch of his relationship with Hablot K. Browne (‘Phiz’), whose illustrations played no small part in the novel’s success.
Provenance: ownership inscription of ‘C J Dunphie’ to verso of frontispiece. This is perhaps the Irish poet, author, and art critic Charles James Dunphie (1820–1908; see ODNB and DIB).
Eckel, pp. 55-58; Smith, Dickens 3.
