The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club: A Reprint of the First Edition with the Illustrations and an Introduction Biographical and Bibliograohical By Charles Dickens the Younger
by Dickens, Charles
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Chapman & Hall, London, 1929. Reprint. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Illustrated. Introduction by author's son, facsimile of the title page to the original edition, dedication to the original edition and preface to the original edition. The text is illustrated, including black-and-white frontispiece, throughout. Blue coloured leather covered boards with self embossed decoration to the boards with gilt coloured decoration and titles to the back strip. Gilt to the top text edge with a faded blue coloured place marker which has frayed at the end. Title says it all. Author's first novel. Softening and Chipping to the back strip with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Age toning of the text block edges and pages with gift inscription to the top left hand corner of the verso of the free front end page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [9], X - XL, 759, [1] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Leather; Britain; 19th century; Inventory No: 0289928. .
Synopsis
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (commonly known as The Pickwick Papers ) is the first novel published by Charles Dickens. The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club catapulted the 24-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle &, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr. Pickwick, & 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 debtor’s prison, characters & incidents sprang to life from Dickens’s pen, to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humor & literary invention The novel was published in 19 issues over 20 months by Chapman and Hall, London in 1836. After the publication the widow of illustrator Robert Seymour claimed that the idea for the novel was originally her husband's; however, in his preface to the 1867 edition, Dickens strenuously denied any specific input, writing that "Mr. Seymour never originated or suggested an incident, a phrase, or a word, to be found in the book.
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- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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- Title
- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club: A Reprint of the First Edition with the Illustrations and an Introduction Biographical and Bibliograohical By Charles Dickens the Younger
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Illustrator
- Illustrated
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Full Leather)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chapman & Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- BZDB2 literature Humour Literature & Literary; Leather; Britain; 19th century; Illustrated Unbranded Dickens, Charles The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club: A Reprint of the First Edition with the Illustrations and an Introduction Biographical
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