This copy is an example bound from the original parts in cloth, with the characteristic stab-holes in the gutter where unstitched from the wrappers. A slip inserted in the 19th number of the part issue (dated 30 October 1837) advertised these services and prices (see Kremers, pp. The also offered owners of the original parts their binding services, binding their parts in the same format at a much lower price than purchasing a new book form copy - cloth, 1s.
6d, and half-morocco with marbled edges for 24s. Upon the completion of the part issue, serialized from March 1836 to November 1837, Chapman and Hall offered Pickwick Papers in book form in three formats: in the present cloth for 21s., full morocco with gilt edges for 26s. The novel is notoriously difficult to secure in the original cloth in desirable condition: "Pickwick (ignoring points) is rarer 'fine in original cloth' than fine in parts" (Sadleir). Pickwick Papers was Dickens's first great success, the novel that transformed him from an obscure journalist into England's most famous writer in a matter of months.
First edition, bound from the original parts in the publisher's primary cloth binding, and scarce thus.
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