DICKENS, Charles (1812-70). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London, 1837, 8vo, 43 engraved plates, 19th-century half calf. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, EARLY ISSUE. With The Penny Pickwick ([London, c. 1837], nos. 1 - 53 only, defective). (2)

DICKENS, Charles (1812-70).  The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. 8vo (214 x 130mm). Half title, wood-engraved frontispiece, additional wood-engraved title with vignette and 41 wood-engraved plates by R. Seymour and "Phiz" [i.e. H. K. Browne] (plates browned [as usual], some white stains to upper margins, some light spotting and staining to text). 19th-century half calf by Bickers and Son, spine gilt with red morocco lettering piece (spine rubbed). Provenance: 2 bookplates removed from the front pastedown and front free endpaper, leaving slight residue. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, EARLY ISSUE, with issue points as follows: the vignette on the title with the sign reading 'Veller'; p. 10 with mark between 'r' and 'u' in 'rum' in the last line; p. 17 with the last 'e' broken; p. 25 with the signature 'E' present; p. 34 without the parenthesis in lines 14 and 15 from the bottom; p. 244 with the quotation mark indistinct before 'Sir' in the 9th line; p. 261 correctly signed 'X2'; and p. 303 with the second '3' in the page number present. Eckel pp. 17-78; Grolier English 78; Hatton and Cleaver pp. 3-88; Smith I, 3. With [Thomas Peckett Prest's] The Penny Pickwick Edited by "Bos" [sic] ([London, c. 1837], numbers 1 - 53 only ([?]of 112) [pp. 1 - 424], defective, several leaves torn with severe loss, contemporary calf-backed boards, very worn). (2)