NY: The Brick Row Book Shop, Inc., 1924.. 1924.. Good. - Small octavo, cream cloth backed greenish gray boards; printed paper label on spine. The binding is stained, soiled & lightly rubbed & the spine & label are darkened. Half-title, title, [4] leaves & 83 pp. The endpapers are darkened & there is light staining to the fly-leaf & 1 page of the text. B&W title vignette & 10 B&W plates by Robert Seymour together with a facsimile of the original blue paper cover, illustrated by Seymour, of the first edition. Good. <p>First edition.<p>Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper and signed "Saml. W. Lambert".<p>A study of the collaboration between Dickens and the caricaturist Robert Seymour, the first illustrator of the Pickwick Papers.

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Bookseller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 2188
Title: WHEN MR. PICKWICK WENT FISHING
Author: (Seymour, Robert). Lambert, Samuel W
Book Condition: Used - Good
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: NY: The Brick Row Book Shop, Inc., 1924.
Date Published: 1924.
Keywords: LITERATURE; AUTHOR; CHARLES DICKENS; PICKWICK PAPERS; SPORTING; ILLUSTRATOR; CARICATURIST; ROBERT SEYMOUR; ILLUSTRATIONS; PLATES; SAMUEL W. LAMBERT; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH.
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.

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