The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
by Charles Dickens
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Dickens’ first novel was originally written and published as a serial. It is a comedy relating the misadventures of the members of The Pickwick Club, whose main purpose is to discover and relate quaint and curious phenomena of social life and customs throughout England. This quest takes the members to all parts of the country, travelling by coach and sampling the comforts or otherwise of various coaching inns.
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The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
2003, Modern Library
in English
- Modern library pbk. ed.
0812967275 9780812967272
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The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
1836, Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand., Bradbury and Evans, printers, Whitefriars.
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Edition Notes
Unbound.
Printer from t.p. verso and covers, no. 16-20.
"[Price 1s." on front covers, No. 1-18; No. 19-20: "[Price 2s."
"Phiz" = Hablot Knight Browne.
The frontispiece, added illustrated t.p., half-title, t.p., preface, and other preliminaries, including "Directions to the Binder": bound in at end of No. 19-20.
Errata: on verso of "Directions to the binder."
Rare Book copy: Mixed issue.
Rare Book copy: Numbers I-IX are all later issues in every respect and lack internal advertisements.
Rare Book copy: Numbers X-XX in first-issue illustrated covers.
Rare Book copy: Text in first state in numbers VIII-XX.
Rare Book copy: Plates in first state in numbers XII-XIV, XVI-XVII, and XIX-XX; the plates in number XII are paginated (cf. Miller).
Rare Book copy: Numbers I-II have plates by "Phiz"; plates in number III are the suppressed plates by Buss in second state (cf. Miller).
Rare Book copy: The internal advertisements of numbers XI-XII and XV-XX are all first-issue, XII with a variant front section titled "The Pickwick Advertiser" (cf. Miller). In number X the front "Advertiser" and first rear advertisement leaf are later issues (the leaf appears to be mixed, the heading in skeleton type, indicating first-issue, and the final exclamation not italicized, indicating a later issue) and the second rear advertisement leaf is first-issue; in numbers XIII and XIV, the front "Advertisers" are later issues, the rear advertisements are first-issues.
Rare Book copy: The leaf titled "Address" in number X is first-issue. The "Address" in number XV seems neither to be a first or second issue ("Strand" has been corrected but the fullstop isn't missing after "Address"), but Miller makes no mention of a third. Number XVII is a first issue in every respect, except it lacks an "Address" (cf. Miller).
Rare Book copy: Vignette title with "Veller" for "Weller" (Hatton & Cleaver p. 3-88).
Eckel, J.C. First editions of the writings of Charles Dickens (1932), p. 17-58
Eckel, J.C. Prime Pickwicks in parts, p. 20-82
Miller, W. Centenary biblio. of the Pickwick papers, p. 1-65
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"THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the earlier history of the public career of the immortal Pickwick would appear to be involved, is derived from the perusal of the following entry in the Transactions of the Pickwick Club, which the editor of these papers feels the highest pleasure in laying before his readers, as a proof of the careful attention, indefatigable assiduity, and nice discrimination, with which his search among the multifarious documents confided to him has been conducted."
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