Thomas Onwhyn Sold at Auction Prices

[Onwhyn (Thomas)] [Thirty-Two Illustrations to the Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Mr Samuel Weller], [1837].

[Onwhyn (Thomas)] [Thirty-Two Illustrations to the Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Mr Samuel Weller], 32 engraved plates by Onwhyn, occasional light foxing, heavier to first 2 plates, later polished calf, gilt, spine gilt with red morocco label, 8vo, [1837]. ⁂ First edition of Onwhyn's pirate illustrations for Pickwick. Dickens loathed the illustrations and wrote of their "singular vileness" in a letter of 1838.