1904 Sangorski & Sutcliffe binding - Dickens' Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.

Author: Charles Dickens. 
Title: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. A reprint of the first edition, with the illustrations, and an introduction biographical and bibliographical, by Charles Dickens the younger.
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co Limited, 1904.
Language: Text in English.
Size : 7.5 " X 5 ".
Pages : xxxviii-759 pages.
Binding: Attractive, beautiful, and near fine binding finely bound in green half morocco leather by Sangosrski & Sutcliffe, London (hinges fine) under a protective removable mylar cover. Upper edge gilt.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare foxing or staining - as shown). 
Illustrations: Complete with the beautiful illustrations by Seymour & Phiz.

The book: Very nicely bound edition of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) -- Charles Dickens's first novel. Because of his success with Sketches by Boz published in 1836, Dickens was asked by the publisher Chapman & Hall to supply descriptions to explain a series of comic "cockney sporting plates" by illustrator Robert Seymour, and to connect them into a novel. The novel's protagonist Samuel Pickwick, Esquire is a kind and wealthy old gentleman, the founder and perpetual president of the Pickwick Club. He suggests that he and three other "Pickwickians" should make journeys to places remote from London and report on their findings to the other members of the club.

The author: Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th-century critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.

The illustrator: Hablot Knight Browne (10 July 1815 – 8 July 1882) was an English artist and illustrator. Well-known by his pen name, Phiz, he illustrated books by Charles Dickens, Charles Lever, and Harrison Ainsworth.

The binder: Sangorski & Sutcliffe is a firm of bookbinders established in London in 1901. It is considered to be one of the most important bookbinding companies of the 20th century, famous for its luxurious jeweled bindings that used real gold and precious stones in their book covers.