The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club / by Charles Dickens ; with fifty-seven illustrations by "Phiz."

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, author.

Contributor:

Phiz, 1815-1882, illustrator.

Zinman, Michael, associated name, former owner.

Chapman and Hall, publisher.

J.S. Virtue and Co., printer.

Series:

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. 1871 (Chapman and Hall) http://viaf.org/viaf/5218151595778305470001 Works.

Dickens works

Standardized Title:

Pickwick papers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

England--Fiction.

England.

Men--Societies and clubs--Fiction.

Men.

Men--Societies and clubs.

Genre:

Bindings.

Cloth case bindings.

Edition bindings)

illustrated books.

novels.

panel stamp bindings.

Wood engravings)

Novels

Illustrated works

Fiction

Humorous fiction

Humorous fiction.

Illustrated works.

Novels.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

Household edition.

Manufacture:

London : Printed by Virtue and Co., [1874]

Place of Publication:

London : Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly, [1874]

Summary:

Four bumbling members of a nineteenth-century London social club, known as the legendary Pickwick Club, journey to places outside the city and become involved in romantic foibles, danger, and a few legal scrapes.

Notes:

"Phiz" = Hablot Knight Browne.

On cover: The works of Charles Dickens. Household edition. Pickwick papers. London, Chapman & Hall, 195, Piccadilly.

Printer statement at foot of page 400.

Two different bindings available. One is a publisher's binding of green cloth, emblematic; floral and geometric ornaments stamped in black, lettering and human figures gilt-stamped; back cover blind-stamped; yellow end papers. The other is bound in blue, illustrated paper covers. The edition statement is at the head of title and the cover lacks the series statement. The series, called Dickens's works, is printed on the spine edges of the individual gatherings.

Issued by Chapman and Hall in a new series of the complete edition of Charles Dickens known as the Household edition. Reset in large type on a quarto page, the series was furnished with entirely new illustrations by a fresh set of artists. The series could be purchased as penny numbers, monthly parts and bound volumes.

Text contained within a double line border on each page; two columns of text per page.

Victorian Web provides useful information about the series and publication date: http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/barnard/household.html

Local Notes:

LIBRA Rare copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Michael Zinman. In 25 parts (not bound). Imperfect: part 14 wanting.

Cited in:

Waugh, A. Hundred years of publishing: being the story of Chapman & Hall, Ltd., page 175

OCLC:

1007999366