THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB

First Edition. Illustrated with 25 remarkable tipped-in colour plates by Frank Reynolds with opaque lettered tissue guards, and with a colour vignette title page and colour illustrated endpapers. Thick 4to, publisher’s original bright crimson cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover, and with the fine gilt and black pictorial vignette on the upper cover, in the elusive original printed dustjacket. viii, 534 pp. Internally clean and crisp and in fine condition, the covers with some light soiling, but the edges and corners remain in quite nice condition, the gilt and black are both well preserved.

Edizione: one of our favorite illustrated books and this a bright copy. this fine gift edition of the pickwick papers, is handsomely illustrated with frank reynolds’ magnificent illustrations. on these colourful and energetic pages, the exploits and antics of pickwick, tupman, winkle, and snodgrass come to life. for dickens lovers, pickwick is often the favorite, filled as it is with delightful humor and adventure. and surely, this illustrated edition will provide endless visual delight to its readers as they encounter the four members of the corresponding society of the pickwick club in their many amusing escapades.