The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
Charles Dickens (Author), Robert Seymour (Illustrator), Phiz (Illustrator), Robert William Buss (Illustrator), Chapman and Hall (Publisher), Bradbury & Evans
First published in serial form, "The Pickwick Papers" tells the story of Samuel Pickwick, a good natured elderly gentleman and president of the Pickwick Club. With three other members of the club, Pickwick travels around the English countryside, where he becomes caught up in a series of comic adventures, from romantic and legal misunderstandings. Although light in tone, the novel foreshadows the social concerns that would emerge in Dickens' later work
Engraved frontispieces (illustrations)
xiv, 609 pages, 43 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
28228280
"1st issue bound"--Eckel, page 56
Includes illustrations by Hablot K. Brown ("Phiz")