Description

Original Cloth. This slim volume of 91 pages is the definitive study of Dickens’s novel “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club” in its serial form. Containing illustrations and an introduction by the famous bookman A. Edward Newton, this copy is one of 440 numbered and signed by both Eckel [Dickens’ bibliographer] and Newton. The present copy is number 52 . It is bound in the original pictorial green cloth mimicking the parts covers of the novel. Also present is the original onion skin wrapper, which has several tears but is complete, and the original box. The box is quite worn and is lacking the side panels of the pull off cover, albeit cover is intact and decorated with the same illustrations that adorns the cover of the book. A very scarce piece of Pickwickiana and itself a valuable reference source. Podeschi H161. A fine copy in a good wrapper, and extremely scarce, though worn box.