The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

Overview:

• Title: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
• Author: Charles Dickens
• Year: 1837
• Publisher: Chapman & Hall
• Pages: xiv+609
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Novel
• Title Reference: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
• 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.