The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens [ANTIQUE HARDCOVER FACSIMILE] 1900 • Donohue Brothers • Reprint of the First Edition

The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

ANTIQUE HARDCOVER FACSIMILE [1900] DONOHUE BROTHERS, CHICAGO

Antique U.S. reprint of the first edition with illustrations, and an introduction, biographical and bibliographical by Charles Dickens the Younger.   No printing date listed but published under the short-lived Donohue Brothers publishing moniker, existed for a single year from 1900-1901.  

Antique emerald cloth-bound hardcover with gilded upper text block in very good condition.

Boards show some wear; but binding is tight and pages read nice and clean with a bit of discoloration to endpapers and surrounding few pages, as well as a personalized sticker on underside of cover.

Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers–-a comic masterpiece that catapulted its 24-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle &, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr Pickwick, & his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election, via the Fleet debtor’s prison, characters & incidents sprang to life from Dickens’s pen, to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humour & literary invention.