The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
By: by Charles Dickens. ; With forty-three illustrations, by R. Seymour and Phiz
Contributors: Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, illustrator; Buss, Robert William, 1804-1875, illustrator; Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882, illustrator; Phiz, 1815-1882, illustrator; Chapman and Hall; Bradbury & Evans
Publisher: Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand.; Bradbury and Evans, printers, Whitefriars.
Published: 1836
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 609
Work titles: Pickwick papers
Notes: Unbound.

Printer from t.p. verso and covers, no. 16-20.

"[Price 1s." on front covers, No. 1-18; No. 19-20: "[Price 2s."

"Phiz" = Hablot Knight Browne.

The frontispiece, added illustrated t.p., half-title, t.p., preface, and other preliminaries, including "Directions to the Binder": bound in at end of No. 19-20.

Errata: on verso of "Directions to the binder."

Rare Book copy: Mixed issue.

Rare Book copy: Numbers I-IX are all later issues in every respect and lack internal advertisements.

Rare Book copy: Numbers X-XX in first-issue illustrated covers.

Rare Book copy: Text in first state in numbers VIII-XX.

Rare Book copy: Plates in first state in numbers XII-XIV, XVI-XVII, and XIX-XX; the plates in number XII are paginated (cf. Miller).

Rare Book copy: Numbers I-II have plates by "Phiz"; plates in number III are the suppressed plates by Buss in second state (cf. Miller).

Rare Book copy: The internal advertisements of numbers XI-XII and XV-XX are all first-issue, XII with a variant front section titled "The Pickwick Advertiser" (cf. Miller). In number X the front "Advertiser" and first rear advertisement leaf are later issues (the leaf appears to be mixed, the heading in skeleton type, indicating first-issue, and the final exclamation not italicized, indicating a later issue) and the second rear advertisement leaf is first-issue; in numbers XIII and XIV, the front "Advertisers" are later issues, the rear advertisements are first-issues.

Rare Book copy: The leaf titled "Address" in number X is first-issue. The "Address" in number XV seems neither to be a first or second issue ("Strand" has been corrected but the fullstop isn't missing after "Address"), but Miller makes no mention of a third. Number XVII is a first issue in every respect, except it lacks an "Address" (cf. Miller).

Rare Book copy: Vignette title with "Veller" for "Weller" (Hatton & Cleaver p. 3-88).

Eckel, J.C. First editions of the writings of Charles Dickens (1932), p. 17-58

Eckel, J.C. Prime Pickwicks in parts, p. 20-82

Miller, W. Centenary biblio. of the Pickwick papers, p. 1-65