Ms. note pasted in: Printed for private circulation but suppressed before a single copy was issued, and the whole edition (except two or three proofs) destroyed by special desire of the printers and of the museum authorities, [signed] Ed. Additional ms. annotation: ms. note by the editor, R.H. Shepherd. Numerous other ms. annotations.
First edition complete in one volume. Issued previously in 20 monthly numbers (in 19 parts) from Jan. 1843 to July 1844. and Manuscript notes signed Richard Gimbel: This book a Christmas present from Charles Sessler, 1928.
Publisher:
Chapman and Hall,
Subject (Geographic):
England--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction and United States--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction
Subject (Name):
Gimbel, Richard--Autograph, Gimbel, Richard--Ms. notes, and Sessler, Charles--Ownership
Advertising matter dated September 1846: [20] p. at end not included in pagination. and Bookseller's label: Simms & Dinham, booksellers & stationers, Exchange Strt., Manchester. Inscribed: B. Lowther, 1847.
"[The right of translation is reserved.]", Issued in numbered and dated wrappers. Advertising matter precedes and follows text of each number., Original wrappers., Portrait of Dickens engraved by J.H. Baker from an 1868 photograph., and Six monthly numbers issued from April to Sept. 1870. Title page follows text of no. VI along with contents, list of illustrations, and a printed note: "All that was left in manuscript of Edwin Drood is contained in the number now published ... " Frontispiece portrait of Dickens and added engraved t.p. precede text of final number.
Pickwick club, Pickwick papers, and Pickwick papers.
Description:
BEIN Dickens 836pe: In case 24 cm. and Issued in monthly parts in green paper wrappers. Pt. VII has cover title: ... Cheap edition of the works of Mr. Charles Dickens. In weekly numbers ... and in monthly parts. The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club ... London, Chapman and Hall [etc., etc.] 1847.