The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club
London: Chapman and Hall, 1869. With eight illustrations. The Charles Dickens edition. Half gold calf over marbled boards, all edges marbled. Octavo. 497p. 7" x 5.25" Bookplate, inked owner's names, mild foxing first and last pages, mild rubbing extremities, overall a very good copy. Item #241243
1860s REISSUE OF DICKENS
By the 1860s, Charles Dickens was arguably the most famous living writer in the English-speaking world. Through his serialized publications, public readings, and deep cultural impact Dickens's works demanded mass publication. In response to this popularity, Chapman and Hall issued the 'Charles Dickens Edition' (c. 1867-1875), a uniform collected reissue of his works that helped to standardize his canon for Victorian readers.
Offered here is the ‘Charles Dickens Edition’ of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Dickens’s exuberant comic masterpiece and episodic satire of early Victorian society. His first great success, it established the narrative voice and character-driven humor that would define his career—a handsome nineteenth-century example.
Price: $75.00