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CHARLES DICKENS: THE COLLECTION OF W.H. COLLIS OF LIVERPOOL
Lot 77

[DICKENS (CHARLES)]
CROWQUILL (ALFRED, pseud of ALFRED HENRY FORRESTER) Pictures Picked from the Pickwick Papers [titled on wrappers], IN 10 ORIGINAL PARTS, Ackermann & Co., 1 May-9 November 1837 (12)

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[DICKENS (CHARLES)]

CROWQUILL (ALFRED, pseud of ALFRED HENRY FORRESTER) Pictures Picked from the Pickwick Papers [titled on wrappers], IN 10 ORIGINAL PARTS, 40 lithographed plates after Crowquill (some printed recto and verso, varying degrees of oxidisation at edges, a few with spotting to images), loose in publisher's buff pictorial wrappers (parts 1, 6, 9 & 10 with hinge repaired, part 2 wrappers separated and with bottom section cut away affecting imprint, part 5 wrappers separated and adhered to first and last plate), preserved in paper folders along with duplicate sets of the plates from parts 3 & 4, "cleaned by Morell", [Gimbel H1077], 8vo, Ackermann & Co., 1 May-9 November 1837 (12)

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RARE FIRST EDITION IN BI-MONTHLY PARTS OF CROWQUILL'S ILLUSTRATIONS. These lithographs, with nearly 200 figures represented on the 40 sheets, were offered as extra illustrations to the monthly issues of Pickwick, each part accompanying two parts of the novel. They are generally found bound into copies of the book, but are rare in parts, especially in uncoloured state.

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