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The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

Title: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club / by Charles Dickens ; with fifty-four illustrations by R. Seymour, Phiz and Crowquill.
Author: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Publication: New-York : James Turney, Jr., [1836?]-1838.

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Description

26 pts. (xii, 609 p., [52] leaves of plates) : ill.; 25 cm.

Alternative Title

Pickwick Club

Note

Each part (no.) in the original illustrated bluish green or green paper covers, as issued. Title page (dated 1838) and other preliminaries in pt. 26. Publisher's advertisements on p. [4] of covers of pts. 14-18 and 20-26, referring to publication of Chapman and Hall's ed. of Sketches by Boz (1837-1839) as beginning "on the 1st November next."
Edgar & Vail give date as "1836-8" and state that the work was issued in "26 monthly parts."
Title and statement of responsibility on covers of parts: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club, containing a faithful record of the perambulations, perils, travels, adventures and sporting transactions of the corresponding members. Edited by "Boz." With illustrations.
Added engraved t.p., with title: The Pickwick papers.
Originally published in 20 pts. in 19: London : Chapman & Hall, 1836-1837.
Contains 52 ill., not 54 as called for on t.p. Cf. Wilkins.
Illustrations: 52 prints (incl. added t.p.) : etching ; full-page. Copies of the etchings by Seymour (7), R.W. Buss (2), and H.K. Browne ("Phiz") (34) in the original English ed., and of 9 of the lithographs by Alfred Crowquill originally published separately under title: Pictures picked from the Pickwick papers (1837). -- 1 print (on covers of parts) : wood engraving ; full-page. Signed: Anderson (i.e. Alexander Anderson?); copy of the original design by Seymour.

Indexed In (note)

Podeschi, J.B. Dickens
Carr, L. VanderPoel Dickens
Wilkins, W.G. First and early American editions of Dickens
Edgar & Vail. Early American eds. of Dickens. (In Cavanaugh, C.W. Charles Dickens, his life as traced by his works, p. 14-31)

Call Number

Arents BIP (Dickens, C. Pickwick 1838) 02-225

OCLC

NYPG02-B2560

Author

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Title

The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club / by Charles Dickens ; with fifty-four illustrations by R. Seymour, Phiz and Crowquill.

Imprint

New-York : James Turney, Jr., [1836?]-1838.

Indexed In:

Podeschi, J.B. Dickens, A17, 1st copy

Carr, L. VanderPoel Dickens, B20

Wilkins, W.G. First and early American editions of Dickens, p. 9-10

Edgar & Vail. Early American eds. of Dickens. (In Cavanaugh, C.W. Charles Dickens, his life as traced by his works, p. 14-31), p. 16

Local Note

Provenance: B. George Ulizio (bookplate in portfolio and pt. 1). Cf. American Art Association auction cat. no. 3883 (Jan. 28-29, 1931), no. 194.

Laid in: Clipping from The amateur book collector (1951), "Book collecting in Australia II : The pirated Tasmanian Pickwick, by George Mackaness."

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Added Author

Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836. Illustrator

Buss, Robert William, 1804-1875. Illustrator

Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882. Illustrator

Crowquill, Alfred. Illustrator

Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870. Illustrator

Ulizio, B. George. Former owner

Research Call Number

Arents BIP (Dickens, C. Pickwick 1838) 02-225