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Publication: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

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  • Publication: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick ClubPublication Record # 412285
  • Author: Charles Dickens
  • Date: 1837-00-00
  • Publisher: Chapman & Hall
  • Pages: xiv+609
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Notes:
    • The full text and images of this edition are available at The Internet Archive..
    • Original title page shown above. Alternate illustrated title page gives the title as "The Pickwick Papers"
    • Included per the review in Bleiler, below. Per Bleiler 4 stories included in the novel, "The Bagman's Story", "The Story of the Bagman's Uncle", "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton" and "The True Legend of Prince Bladud", have supernatural content and are often anthologized. Clute/Grant also details the first 3 stories mentioned by Bleiler as contained in this novel.
    • Bleiler's review gives the dates of the serial 1 shilling installments (issued in 20 parts from April 1836 to November 1837). This edition is the first single volume edition.
    • The first printing is distinguished by the occurrence on p. 9 of a marginal note reading "Although we find this circumstance recorded as a "singular" one, in Mr. Pickwick's notebook, we cannot refrain from humbly expressing our dissent from that learned authority." This was removed from later printings.
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Primary Verifications

Verifier Date Type Last User Activity Date
Rtrace 2013-03-17 08:15:03 Permanent 2022-09-07

Secondary Verifications

Source Status Verifier Date
Bleiler Early Years N/A Rtrace 2019-02-09 22:43:16
Bleiler Supernatural Verified Rtrace 2019-02-09 22:43:16
Bleiler1 (Gernsback) N/A Rtrace 2013-03-17 08:15:03
Bleiler78 N/A Rtrace 2013-03-17 08:15:03
Clute/Grant Verified Rtrace 2013-03-17 08:15:03
Clute/Nicholls N/A Rtrace 2013-03-17 08:15:03
Contento1 (anth/coll) N/A Rtrace 2013-03-17 08:15:03
Currey N/A Rtrace 2013-03-17 08:15:03
Locus1 N/A Rtrace 2013-03-17 08:15:03
Miller/Contento N/A Rtrace 2013-03-17 08:15:03
OCLC/Worldcat Verified Rtrace 2013-03-17 08:15:03
Reginald1 N/A Rtrace 2013-03-17 08:15:03
Reginald3 N/A Rtrace 2013-03-17 08:15:03
Tuck N/A Rtrace 2013-03-17 08:15:03
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