Dickens (Charles).- Seymour (Mrs. [Robert]) An Account of the Origin of the "Pickwick Papers", reprint, one of 50 copies signed by F.G. Kitton for subscribers only, A.L.s from Charles Dickens to C Nugent Esq. tipped-in before half-title, 2pp., Devonshire Terrace, 19th February 1851, responding to a request for tickets to a dinner, "I regret to say that it is quite out of my power to send you tickets...I have, now, twice as many applications as there are seats...and this very morning I have had a letter from Mr James Wallack asking for a ticket for himself - which it is absolutely impossible at present to sell him" (second page with shallow chip to upper margin, faint staining to head to verso, folds), extra-illustrated with c.50 plates or pieces of related ephemera, including 4 ?monochrome wash illustrations, possibly traced after the original by Cruikshank, also tipped-in A.L.s from F.G. Kitton to subscriber Dudley Tenney of New York, one plate with marginal tear, occasional light offsetting, green half morocco by Stikeman & Co., spine gilt but sunned, rubbing to spine and corners, t.e.g., small 4to, Printed for the Author, 1901.*** The autograph letter from Dickens with mention of James William Wallack (1794-1864), Anglo-American actor and stage manager. Provenance: Mary and Norman Hickman (bookplate).