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CHARLES DICKENS: THE COLLECTION OF W.H. COLLIS OF LIVERPOOL
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DICKENS (CHARLES)
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, Chapman & Hall, 1837

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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DICKENS (CHARLES)

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, half-title, etched frontispiece, additional vignette title and 41 plates by R. Seymour and H.K. Browne ["Phiz"], plates all later issues with publisher's imprint, caption and signature, occasional minor spotting and slight creasing, publisher's purplish fine-diaper cloth (primary binding), covers stamped in blind with borders, spine lettered in gilt, edges and spine slightly faded, recased with repairs to free endpapers [Eckel pp.17-78; Hatton & Cleaver pp.1-88; Smith I:3], 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1837

Footnotes

Provenance: W.E. Forster (1818-1886, industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal Party statesman), presentation inscription to R.B. Fox on front free endpaper. Forster is best remembered for his Education Act of 1870, which established the elements of a primary school system, whilst his staunch advocacy of lethal force against the Land League earned him the nickname 'Buckshot Forster'; "Bought from McGoff 4 July 1934/ Cleaned & repaired by Morrell 27 Aug 1934", note from Collis loosely inserted.

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