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Described in the 1930s as “one of the three or four most remarkable books in the whole course of English literature”, perception of that status may have changed a little in the century since, but Pickwick, Dickens’ great and sympathetic classic remains a highpoint of both literature and collecting. 

Dickens’s first novel, his fame actually developed during the course of its publication. A few hundred copies were printed of the first few parts of Chapman and Hall’s first publication of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; during the course of the publication its fame exploded and by the end of the venture tens of thousands of copies were needed of each part.

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