DICKENS (CHARLES) The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 1920 PARTS, Chapman and Hall, April 1836-1837DICKENS (CHARLES)The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 19/20 PARTS, mixed issue, half-title, additional etched title and 42 plates by R. Seymour, R.W. Buss, and Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"), some plates with light toning or spotting but generally good, publisher's pictorial blue wrappers, a few spines rebacked, others with some small repairs, some minor soiling and wear, preserved together with incomplete set of Thomas Onwhyn's "Illustrations to the Pickwick Club..." [see footnote] in cloth chemise, and red morocco-backed slipcase [Eckel, Prime Pickwicks in Parts; Hatton & Cleaver, pp.3-88], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, April 1836-1837This set has later issue text in parts 1-8, first and later issue points in parts 9-10, and first issue text in parts 11-19/20. The inner wrappers of parts 1-8 are blank, issue covers of parts 1 and 2 reads "With Four Illustrations by Seymour", the wrappers to parts 16 and 17 dated 1837, the remainder dated 1836. Lacks all the advertisements in parts 1-9, and 11-12. Parts 10, and 14-19/30 have the "Pickwick Advertiser" (second issued in part 10) and all advertisements, part 13 has "Pickwick Advertiser" and 4pp. "Ward's Miscellany" only. The author's "Address" leaf is present in part 2, lacking in part 3, and present as later issue in part 10. The publisher's "Address" leaf is correct in parts 17 and 18, and present but a a later issue in part 19/20.Sold with the lot, and housed in the same slipcase, is: [Thomas Olwyn] Illustrations to the Pickwick Club...by Samuel Weller, 7 parts (of 8, lacking part 7), 28 etched plates (of 32), publisher's green printed wrappers [Gimbel H1120], E. Grattan, 1837.Provenance: A.M. Cohn (Cruikshank's bibliographer), bookplate; Kenyon Starling, bookplate; Christie's New York, William E. Self Family Collection, Part I. The Kenyon Starling Library of Charles Dickens, 2 April 2008, lot 18.