The Pic Nic Papers

3 volumes in-8 with very spirited etching by George Cruishank, Phiz, etc…
Veau fauve glacé, triple filet doré encadrant les plats, dos à nerfs richement orné, pièces de titre et de tomaison en maroquin rouge et vert, double filet or sur les coupes, tranches de tête dorées, exemplaire non rogné, premiers plats de couverture et dos reliés en fin de volumes. Riviere & Son.

200 x 122 mm.

Dickens, Charles. The Pic Nic Papers, by various hands, 1841.
First edition edited by Charles Dickens. 
Henry Colburn, 1841.

First edition.
Eckel, pp.143-5; Gimbel B109; Sadleir, XIX Century Fiction, 703.

This is the later issue without the incorrect "publisher young" on p. 3 of the introduction and with Palmer as the printer of both volumes.

Charles Dickens edited the first two volumes of the work and wrote the introduction as well as The Lamplighter's Story.
Other contributors included William Harrison Ainsworth, Thomas Moore, Leitch Ritchie and Agnus Strickland. Macrone's widow eventually received 450 pounds from this charitable publication.
It was originally contrived by Dickens to benefit the widow and children of 28 year old publisher John Macrone, who died suddenly in 1837.

“Charles Dickens may well be the most ingenious author in English literature. The energy of his inventiveness gave birth to a gallery of characters whose lives have overflowed the boundaries of his books to become permanent fixtures in the collective imagination” (James Mustich).

Très bel exemplaire entièrement non rogné conservé dans une élégante reliure en veau fauve glacé de Riviere & Son.