Without very rare rear advertiser "Phrenology" Previous owner's sig on front wrapper dated 1836 With both plates in first state, but "Phiz del" sig on first plate almost invisible Text in earliest state Part 8: Wrappers correct With front advertiser. Part 7: Wrappers all correct With front advertiser. But with the second state of plate 15, "Seminary" correctly numbered 169. With the rare first state mispaginated plate number 14, "Mrs. First issue of both plates All first issue points for text Previous owner's sig on front wrapper Part 6: Wrappers all correct No ads present Text in earliest state. Without the folded sheet advertiser for Rowland Kalydor, but the famous Bruton- Pattersen-Newton copy was also missing the folded sheet advertiser. Back wrapper correct Front ad correct Back ad- with Grattans ad similar to H&C but slightly different variant. Part 5: Front wrapper is an unknown variant. All text 1st issue With all plates in first state, but no visual "NEMO" on "Breakdown" plate. Part 4: Wrappers all correct Has the very rare "Pickwick Advertiser" at front. Previous owner's signature on top of front wrapper. Has the "Address" (authentic example) With the extremely rare back ad, "The Toilet," the first paid ad in Pickwick, in the preferred Hatton and Cleaver Variant 1 (but without pagination on 2-4). 1b "The Auto-Biography of an Oil Bottle" With all plates in first state. Text: No 1st issue points Part 3: Front wrapper correct (the rarest of the series) with illustration credit to Buss. Text mostly not 1st issue points Part 2: Front and back wrapper are H& C variant 5 (Same as part 4) Plates- 1-1st 2- 1st 3- 1st Has the extremely rare "Address" on the death of Seymour (authentic example). Missing all ads, bound with no ads at all Pg 25/26 with Signature E and both page numbers but incorrect headline, so 3rd issue. 2- First state, 2nd Seymour- Extra plate, maybe 2nd state first Seymour 3- 2nd State, 1st Seymour.
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Full Parts Breakdown: Part 1: Front wrapper is good Back wrapper is the H&C variant 4 (Same as wrapper for part 3) Plates- 1?- Additional plate: First or second state of First Seymour. And with Part XIII with rare "Pigot" ad slip which Hatton states only three copies known. Part X with the early rare "Lions of London," a definitive point of priority. Part V with Grattans ad similar to H&C but slightly different variant. Part IV Has the very rare "Pickwick Advertiser" at front. According the Hatton and Cleaver, "These mispaginated plates may be considered the rarest items in the whole realm of Pickwick." Part III contains the extremely rare first paid ad in Pickwick (and possibly first paid ad in a book), the "Toilet" ad, present in the preferred Hatton and Cleaver Variant No. With Part VI, it has the the rare first state mispaginated plate number 14, "Mrs. In this final part, the frontispiece and Vignette title are in first state, but the two other plates are second state. Present part I has included with it an additional set of plates as well. Only twice has it come under the writer's notice." Of the forty-three plates most are in first state with the exception of part I, part VI and part IXX/XX. The first issue is extremely rare and H&C claims "This point is an extremely rare one, and has not been previously recorded. In part IX, Text with pg 260 and pg 267 points in first issue, but pg 261 text is second issue with X2 not N2. Text is true first issue in all parts besides parts I, II, VIII, and IX. There are two Part X present and included with the additional Part X including the first issue address without the "dash". All seven "Addresses" are present as called for, including the rare Seymour suicide address in Part II.
All front and back wrappers are first issue, inside and out, except back wrapper of Part 1, Part II, front wrapper of Part V. All notes and parts housed in a quarter green morocco clamshell. With additional typed notated sheets by Hatton included with the parts.
Previous owner's signatures to front wrapper of parts III, V, VII, IX, XI, XV and XVI. Small repairs to edges of front wrapper of parts XII and XIV. Some spines repairs to parts V, VI, VIII, X, XIV, XVI, XVII, XVIII and XIX/XX. Parts are generally very clean and in very good condition. Forty-three inserted engraved plates, including frontispiece and vignette title-page, with the original plates by Seymour and Buss. First edition, in the original monthly parts, twenty numbers bound in nineteen parts. BROWNE, Hablot Knight BUSS, R.W.|SEYMOUR, Robert (illustrator).
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