The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

E-379: Chapman and Hall. Very Good. 1837. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Chapman and Hall, London, UK. 1837. Xiv, 609 pgs. Illustrated with With 43 engraved plates by Robert Seymour and H. K. Browne. First Edition/Early issue with the following points: five lines of footnotes to page 9; with the last 'e' of page 17 broken; with the signature 'E' present to the tail of pages 25 and 27; page 261 correctly signed 'X2'; with the second '3' in the page number present to page 303; ; line 1 correctly reading "inbelicate" and line 5 reading "inscriptino"; line 5, with "S. Veller" uncorrected; page 400, line 21, with "his friends"; and page 432, with the "F" in the "OF" of the headline perfect. Bound in 3/4 brown leather with raised bands along the spine and gilt titles present to the spine. Boards very lightly worn to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the title page and previous owner's name present to the half-title page. Edges trimmed. Foxing Present. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers - a comic masterpiece that catapulted its twenty-four-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle and, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr Pickwick, and his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election, via the Fleet debtors' prison, characters and incidents spring to life from Dickens's pen, to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humour and literary invention.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .