Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club: With Forty-Three Illustrations, by R. Seymour and Phiz.
by DICKENS, Charles
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Bound by Morrell in full 20th-century red morocco. Boards triple-ruled in gilt. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Edges ruled in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Top edge gilt. A small spot on front board. Top of spine with a sliver of leather missing. Some plates with some toning, mainly along outer margins. Overall a very nice copy.
"From a literary standpoint the supremacy of this book has been... firmly established... It was written by Dickens when he was twenty-four and its publication placed the author on a solid foundation from which he never was removed.... It is quite probable that only Shakespeare's Works, the Bible and perhaps the English Prayer Book, exceed "Pickwick Papers" in circulation" (Eckel, 17). "Never was a book received with more rapturous enthusiasm than that which greeted the Pickwick Papers!" (Allibone I:500). Pickwick would be the first volume in which Dickens was acknowledged as the author, rather than using his pen name, "Boz."
Gimbel A15. Hatton and Cleaver. Smith, Dickens, I, 3.
HBS 68603.
$2,000.
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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- Bookseller
- Heritage Book Shop, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 68603
- Title
- Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
- Author
- DICKENS, Charles
- Illustrator
- SEYMOUR, Robert; BROWNE, Hablot Knight
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1837
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- English Literature|Nineteenth-Century Literature
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