The Pickwick papers

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Primary Artist

Henry Dowling (1810–1885)

Title

The Pickwick papers

Other titles

The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club.

Physical description

The Pickwick papers V.D.L.edition; Pp.[iii] (lacking the half-title page) - xii+588, lithographic frontispiece, vignette title and 18 plates, publishers's slip tipped-in at front; nineteenth xcentury black morocco boards, the edges decorated in blind, rebacked with ealry black calf spine laid on, spine decorated in gilt around five raised bands, with gilt lettered red leather title label, early endpapers, followed by later binder's blanks, signature and date (1858) on the blank preliminary, tiny inked correction to one word of text p.47

Date made

1838

Category

Illustrated book

Print types

planographic | letterpress

Matrix size

22.2 x 14.5 cm (book (closed))

Edition information

print run unknown

Subject category

Australia, Book arts: Illustrated book

Legacy id

152317

Creators

PHIZ, | Male | print after

Dowling, Henry. | (1810–1885) Australian | Male | printer

Dickens, Charles. | (1812–1870) English | Male | author

TIZ, M.L. | Male | lithographer

Impressions

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Collection

National Gallery of Australia

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression as issued

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