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PICKWICK PAPERS]. -- CROWQUILL, Alfred. (Pseudonym of Alfred Henry FORRESTER, 1804-1873). The Pickwickians . London: Ackermann & Co., 1 May - 9 November 1837.
PICKWICK PAPERS]. -- CROWQUILL, Alfred. (Pseudonym of Alfred Henry FORRESTER, 1804-1873). The Pickwickians . London: Ackermann & Co., 1 May - 9 November 1837. 10 bi-monthly/monthly parts, 8 o (230 x 147 mm). 40 hand-colored lithographic plates, dated and with publisher's imprint, by Crowquill (lightly and unevenly browned, some minor spotting). Original cream pictorial printed wrappers (stitching renewed, backstrips a bit rubbed, some edges creased, minor repairs to front wrapper of Part 5); green cloth folding box. Four plates in each part designed to extra-illustrate two numbers of the Chapman and Hall monthly issue of Pickwick Papers , May 1836 - November 1837. Yale/Gimbel H1077. [ With :] CROWQUILL, Alfred. Lithographic proof of two plates from Part 6 The Pickwickians . London: Ackermann & Co., 1 August 1837. Signed "AC" 1 pp. 4 o (201 x 270 mm), captions supplied by Crowquill in pencil. (Extracted from an album, central vertical crease.) [ With :] CROWQUILL, Alfred -- PAILTHORPE, F.W. The Pickwickians . [London: F.T. Sabin, 1880]. 8 o (222 x 140 mm) 40 hand-colored etched plates by Pailthorpe after Crowquill (lightly browned, occasionally thumbed). Original green pictorial printed wrappers, uncut (rebacked, edges creased with one or two short tears). Provenance : Kenyon Starling (bookplate). Faithful copies of Crowquill's originals. Yale/Gimbel H1079. (3)