The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club / by Charles Dickens ; with introduction and notes by Andrew Lang ; in two vols. ... With the original illustrations.
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
Category
Books
Date
1899
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3259132
Summary
Bibliographic description
Gadshill edition. 2 v., plates : ill. ; 21 cm. Uniformly bound and shelved with other vols. of Gadshill edition of the works of Charles Dickens (London and New York, 1897-1899). Pencil code and note on front free endpaper verso in v. 1: "uhs-/dtige" and "34 vols". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late nineteenth-century half red morocco, red cloth over boards; five raised bands; gilt tooled spines; spines lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Dickens / Vol. 1[-2]' and 'Pickwick papers I[-II]'; gilt top edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's ink stamp on front free endpapers verso: 'Bound by Riviere & Son'
Makers and roles
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), author Walter Andrew Lang (1844-1912), editor Hablot Knight Browne 'Phiz' (London 1815 - Hove 1882), illustrator