The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club / Charles Dickens
Book
497 pages. 2 pages publisher's advertising. Frontis illustration.
Inferior paper and printing.
2015.7.80
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Male friendshipCheap Book ProductionSocieties and clubs1880s
7-1/2 in
5 in
Charles Dickens
Alta Edition
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
United States
North America
circa 1880
Publisher's Binding- Gold Band Titles
Bound in a uniform series binding of cinnamon colored cloth stamped in black to spine and cover. Cover and spine design has leaf and flower motif stamped on a diagonal with only the background alternating from solid black to stippling. "Alta Edition" stamped to center of cover with title in a rectangular bordered panel to the top. Gold title band to spine. Brown stone endpapers.
No pub. date.
England