“The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club / by Charles Dickens. / With Forty-Three Illustrations, By R. Seymour and Phiz. / London: Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand. / MDCCCXXXVII. [1837] London: / Bradbury and Evans, Printers, Whitefriars.”
This is a 2 volume set of The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens with a total of 82 illustrations [43 original with 39 added]. Rebound with leather spine and marbled endpapers with a marbled edge.
43 Illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz (Hablot K. Brown), with added illustrations by Thomas Onwhyn (Grattan) and Alfred Croqquill (Alfred Henry Forrester). Extra illustrated with a total of 39 added plates (32 by Onwhyn, 7 by Alfred Crowquill). Added illustrations were part of a pirated edition of “Pickwick” issued in eight monthly parts by Grattan.
Book plate on the front inside paste down "Thomas Cochran Esq." in each volume
Vol. 1: 306 pages, 49 pages of plates / illustrations [complete]
Owner's signature on the front inside free endpaper - "F.A. Paley, St. Johns. 1837" and "J. Hays. / Chr. Coll. / 1847"
light annotations written in pencil on front inside free end papers
Condition: foxing throughout, binding sound, worn leather along the edges of the spine
Vol. 2: p. 307-609 [302 pages], 33 pages of plates / illustrations [complete]
Owner’s signature on the front inside free endpaper - “F. Paley, St. John’s Coll. 1837.” and “J. Hays., Chr. Coll. 1847.”
Condition: foxing throughout, binding sound, some loss in leather on the spine (see photos) and irritation by the title stamping on the spine
First edition, early state. (A few) edition notes:
The Engraved title page vignette has "Tony Weller" on the signboard above the inn door
“S. Veller” is present on page 342, line 5
“his friends” is present on page 400, line 21
“F” in “OF” is imperfect in the headline on page 432
OWNER’s SIGNATURE / Frederick Apthorp Paley
Frederick Apthorp Paley (14 January 1815 – 8 December 1888), was an English classical scholar. Born at Easingwold in Yorkshire, to Rev. Edmund Paley and Sarah (née Apthorp), he was the grandson of William Paley, and brother of architect E.G. Paley, and was educated at Shrewsbury School and St John's College, Cambridge (BA 1838. His conversion to Roman Catholicism forced him to leave Cambridge in 1846, but he returned in 1860 and resumed his work as "coach," until in 1874 he was appointed by Mgr Thomas Capel as professor of classical literature at the newly founded Roman Catholic University at Kensington. This institution was closed in 1877 for lack of funds, and Paley removed to Boscombe, where he lived until his death. [Source: Wikipedia]
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