REYNOLDS (George W.M.). Pickwick abroad; Or, The tour in France. By George W.M. Reynolds, Author of “The Modern Literature of France,” “Alfred de Rosann,” &c. Illustrated with Forty-one steel engravings, By Alfred Crowquill and John Phillips; And with Thirty-three wood cuts, By Bonner. London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside; R. Griffin and Co., Glasgow; Tegg and Co. Dublin; Also, J. and S.A. Tegg, Sydney and Hobart Town, 1839. Demy 8vo; half-title not called for; engraved vignette title-page, letterpress title-page (as above), frontispiece, and thirty-nine plates (eight unsigned, fourteen signed by Crowquill, the remainder, including the vignette title, signed by Phillips); thirty-three woodcuts in the text; pp.xvi+628; publisher’s inserted 8pp. catalogue at end, dated 1844; vertically ribbed dark green cloth, ruled and elaborately blocked and embossed blind on sides, ruled blind, lettered gilt (with title only) on spine; a.e. uncut. Unobtrusively re-backed, with the original slightly chipped backstrip laid on, and with new end-papers; the plates a little foxed, and variously embrowned, as usual with this volume; otherwise a very nice copy. Rare in cloth.

GB £360.00

US $590.40

Sadleir, 2038, listing a recased copy in ‘blue-black ribbed cloth’, without a catalogue; Wolff, 5777, listing (with an obvious misprint in the sub-title: ‘TAR’ for ‘TOUR’) a copy in mulberry fine-diaper cloth. The cloth of the present copy has been designed to match the original cloth issue of Dickens’ ‘Pickwick Papers’ — particularly as regards the ruling and lettering of the spine. The work first appeared serially in twenty parts in the Monthly Magazine in 1837 — 8, and was subsequently re-issued, first by the publishers of the Monthly Magazine, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, and subsequently by Tegg, in monthly parts. These commenced publication in January 1839, and for this first separate appearance a lengthy Preface was added. Upon completion of the issue in parts, Tegg further re-issued the book as a volume in cloth, as here, the present copy exhibiting in minor respects a secondary state of the prelims.: in both of the parts issues the erratum ‘Paris’ for ‘Calais’ occurs in the caption of the plate listed for p.9, but here it reads, correctly, ‘Calais’; and on p.v, at l.15, the ‘e’ of ‘press’ is broken and the ‘ss’ is in a smaller font, this not being the case in the first state (though the ‘f’ of ‘from’ is broken in both). Other typographical flaws noted in the first state are present also here, as, for example: p.iv, l.22, ‘ll’ in ‘all’ broken, l.23, first ‘l’ in ‘all’ battered; p.vi, l.15, ‘f’ in ‘of’ broken’ p.vii, l.11, dropped hyphen at end of line, l.12, dropped ‘t’ at start of line; p.viii, l.1, broken ‘p’ in ‘perficial’; p.2, l.19, broken ‘A’ in ‘CAUSE’, etc., showing that the printing has been done in both cases from the same setting of type.
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