“never was a book received with more rapturous enthusiasm than that which greeted the Pickwick Papers!" - Allibone
DICKENS, CHARLES. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
London: Chapman & Hall, 1837
Brown morocco gilt, upper board with mounted portrait of Mr. Pickwick after a drawing by Kyd, top edge gilt. Age toning, plates foxed and stained as usual. A handsome copy.
FIRST EDITION. Dickens’s first great success, the Pickwick Papers transformed him from an little-known journalist into England’s most famous writer. “From a literary standpoint the supremacy of this book has been … firmly established … It was written by Dickens when he was 24 and its publication placed the author on a solid foundation from which he never was removed …. It is quite probable that only Shakespeare’s Works, the Bible and perhaps the English Prayer Book exceed Pickwick Papers in circulation” (Eckel).
The Pickwick Papers was first issued in monthly parts and then appeared in a single volume. This copy contains the later states of the text points, and the plates are re-etched adding the Chapman and Hall imprint. The title bears the original 1837 publication date, whereas reissues with later dates are known.
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