Pickwick club, Pickwick papers, and Pickwick papers.
Description:
BEIN Dickens 836pe: In case 24 cm. and Issued in monthly parts in green paper wrappers. Pt. VII has cover title: ... Cheap edition of the works of Mr. Charles Dickens. In weekly numbers ... and in monthly parts. The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club ... London, Chapman and Hall [etc., etc.] 1847.
"London: Bradbury and Evans, printers, Whitefriars"--T.p. verso and colophon., BEIN Gimbel/Dickens A15 11: Ms. notes by John C. Eckel. Ms. notes in another hand., Final p. blank., First issue [of no. I]: without signature E at foot of p. 25; cf. Hatton & Cleaver, p. 13., and Originally issued in 19 monthly parts, in numbered and dated wrappers, with advertising matter, from April 1836 to Nov. 1837. Title page, binder's directions and other preliminaries (p. [i]-xiv, [2]) originally at end of final part (double no. XIX-XX); added engraved t.p. at beginning of final part.
An abridged edition, from which several later editions were copied, was published at Boston in 1775., Collation: License (original, dated Boston, March 29, 1677, followed by English license, dated June 27, 1677) 1 .l; title: 1 l.; dedicatory epistle, advertisement, and poetical addresses: [10] p.; "A narrative [etc.]": 1-115 p.; "A supplement concerining the warr with the Pequods": 116-131 p.; "A table shewing the towns [etc.]": [7] p.; "A postscript": [6] p.; "A narrative of the troubles with the Indians in New-England, from Pascataqua to Pemmaquid": 88 p., Imperfect: map wanting., Second edition of: A narrative of the troubles with the Indians in New-England ... To which is added a discourse about the warre with the Pequods ... Boston, 1677. Although differing but slightly from the first, this second edition (the only one printed in England) is the more highly prized as having received the author's last corrections., and Signatures: [A]⁴ ([A]1 blank) a⁴ B-T⁴ A-L⁴.
Publisher:
Printed for Tho. Parkhurst ... ,
Subject (Geographic):
New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--New England., Indians of North America--Wars., King Philip's War, 1675-1676., and Pequot War, 1636-1638.
Bookplate of Leonard and Lisa Baskin. Autograph: Fred. C. Nasser. Inscribed: Compliments of G.P.P. Putnam's Sons [?]. Advertising matter on [6] p. at end not noted in pagination. and Publisher's binding, signed MA, designed by Margaret Armstrong.
Publisher:
G.P. Putnam's Sons,
Subject (Name):
G.P. Putnam & Sons--Presentation inscription and Nasser, Fred. C.--Autograph
BEIN 1997 70: Catchword on p. 8 intact. Regular paper issue., BEIN Ik P810 714 copy 1: Fine paper issue. Catchword p. 8: The 'e' has slipped above the line. Imperfect: Canto 5 plate bled at foreedge., Regular and fine paper issues. The regular paper issue has a watermark and the gutter margin on p. 9 is 1.5 cm. The fine paper issue has no watermark and the gutter margin on p. 9 is 2 cm., Signatures: A⁴ B-D⁸., The catchword on p. 8,'The', has several states, involving the slippage and disappearance of the 'h' and 'e'., and Title-page in red and black.
Publisher:
Printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys in Fleetstreet,
Errata: p. [4] (1st group)., Imperfect: most of p. [1]-40 at end bled at top; final leaf mutilated., Includes (p. 1-40 at end) with special t.p.: The reformed Virginian silk-worm, a reprint, with additions, of "A rare and new discovery of a speedy way [etc.]" London, 1652. It was apparently also issued separately (Wing H1000)., Includes bibliographical references., Includes letters by "V.F., gentleman", Edward Diggs and John Ferrar and verses by Ferrar and Du Bartas., and Signatures: A² B-F⁴ G⁴(-G4) H-I⁴ chi1, ²A-E⁴ ²F².
Publisher:
Printed for Giles Calvert ...,
Subject (Name):
Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662. Reformed Virginian silk-worm.
Subject (Topic):
Amer tracts--1655., Bees--Early works to 1800., Brit tracts--1655., and Sericulture--Early works to 1800.