„Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!“ -Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
 
The first stories, bound in a book, by Charles Dickens, here in the issue of 1847, published by Chapman & Hall in 186 Strand, London, offered to you in its original publisher cloth, with a half-brown spine with gilded imprints and title on a plate, dark green leather and marmorized book covers. The inner book is designed with a graved frontispiece after a draft from C. R. Leslie and 6 whole page engravings. Further, you can find a printed inscription to a Mr. Serjeant Talfourd. The condition of the book is good, it shows scratches and bumps on the outside book covers, the spine and edges and slight yellowing and foxing on the inside.
"The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club" is a collection of originally 20 parts, published between 1836 and 1837. The later published book made the 23 years old Dickens famous over night: the story about a fictional club of "the Pickwicks", who are four people travelling the country to find adventures and knowledge, is written with a witty sense of humour and situation comedy. Central themes are friendship and mercy and the humouresque portray of the social issues of the time, conveyed trough the person of Samuel Pickwick.