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[Cosway-Style Binding]. Charles Dickens. Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837.... (Total: 2 Items)
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Cosway-Style Binding: Extra-Illustrated First Edition of the Pickwick Papers Beautifully Bound in Two Volumes
[Cosway-Style Binding]. Charles Dickens. Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837.First edition, first state. Octavo. Extra-illustrated copy bound in two volumes. xvi, 306; 307-609 pages. Illustrated by Seymour, Buss, and Phiz.
Cosway-style binding. Full green morocco over beveled boards. Blind and gilt fillets to boards with gilt-stamped facsimiles of Dickens' autograph on front boards; raised bands with gilt lettering and decorations to compartments. All edges gilt. Doublures with inlaid red morocco and gilt dentelles. To the front doublure of Volume I is an inset hand-colored cameo portrait of Dickens under glass. Silk moiré endpapers. Fine.
All the Hatton and Cleaver first issue points, with the exception that the "E" signature mark on page 25 is present. Half-title page bound into the second volume. All of the forty-four standard illustrations are present (inclusive of frontispiece and vignette title page), each accompanied by a variant duplicate plate. There is a total of 145 plates. twenty-seven of them hand-colored, such as eleven plates from George Cruikshank's series of "London Characters." A wonderful and unique Dickens item stunningly presented.
Eckel, 55. Gimbel. Smith 3.
Auction Info
2009 October Grand Format Rare Books Auction #6030 (go to Auction Home page)
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October, 2009
16th-17th
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