The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles - 1837

London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition, first issue of text. 43 engraved plates by R. Seymour and H. T. Browne ("Phiz"), and EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 30 (of 32) rare "Sam Weller" plates. 2 vols. 8vo. Bound in full nineteenth-century brown morocco, covers elaborately gilt with design of swirling gilt fillets and fleurons, gilt spines, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. A lovely binding, with bookplate of Frederick Hulme Thwaites. First edition, first issue of text. 43 engraved plates by R. Seymour and H. T. Browne ("Phiz"), and EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 30 (of 32) rare "Sam Weller" plates. 2 vols. 8vo. Pickwick in a Wonderful Binding. This copy has all the of the textual first issue points mentioned by Hatton and Cleaver, except for the rare one on page 25: the signature 'E' is present; on page 260, line 29 reads 'hodling'; p. 267, the figure '7' is aligned above the other numbers; p. 341 has correct readings of 'inde-licate' and 'inscription';p. 342, line 5, has uncorrected "S. Veller"; p. 400, has incorrect reading 'this friends'; p. 432, the 'F' in headline is imperfect. In addition, the vignette title page is in the first state, with the sign reading 'Veller'. Lacking half-title, engraved frontispiece supplied from another edition. In addition, the copy is extra-illustrated with the 'Sam Weller' plates, issued under that pseudonym by Thomas Onwhyn in 1837. Smith 3 (pp. 19-27)