Dickens and His Illustrators Part 31

BARNABY RUDGE.--Etching of Barnaby, with a view of the "Boot" Inn. (The only impression I have seen is in Mr. J. F.

Dexter's Collection.)

H. K. BROWNE ("Phiz").

PICKWICK.--"Ill.u.s.trations to the Cheap Edition of the Works of Mr. Charles d.i.c.kens." Six Ill.u.s.trations to The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Engraved [on wood] from the Original Drawings by "Phiz." Green wrapper, small 8vo, price one shilling, N.D. [1847]. London: Darton & Clark, Holborn Hill; Joseph Cundall, 12 Old Bond Street; John Menzies, Edinburgh; c.u.mming & Ferguson, Dublin; James Macleod, Glasgow. And sold by all Booksellers in Town and Country.

The word "misletoe" is mis-spelt in the t.i.tle on one of the woodcuts. (_See p. 72._)

THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP.--"Four Plates, engraved [in stipple]

under the superintendence of Hablot K. Browne and Robert Young, to ill.u.s.trate the first Cheap Edition of 'The Old Curiosity Shop.'" Price one shilling. Green wrapper. The subjects are: Little Nell and her Grandfather, the Marchioness, Barbara, and The Death of Little Nell.

"Published with the Approbation of Mr. Charles d.i.c.kens."

London: Chapman & Hall, 1848. Also proofs on india-paper, one shilling each portrait. A few sets coloured, now very scarce. (_See p. 85._)

BARNABY RUDGE.--"Four Plates, engraved [in stipple] under the superintendence of Hablot K. Browne and Robert Young, to ill.u.s.trate the Cheap Edition of 'Barnaby Rudge.'" Portraits of Emma Haredale, Dolly Varden, Barnaby and Hugh, Mrs.

Varden and Miggs. "Published with the Approbation of Mr.

Charles d.i.c.kens." London: Chapman & Hall, 186 Strand, 1849.

Issued in green wrapper, price one shilling. A few sets coloured, now very scarce. These and the preceding designs were re-engraved by E. Roffe in 1889. (_See p. 85._)

"LITTLE NELL" and "DOLLY VARDEN." Engraved on steel by Edwin Roffe, from hitherto unpublished drawings by Hablot K.

Browne. On india-paper, the impression limited to 100 proofs, with _remarques_ printed in black, and 100 with _remarques_ in brown, after which the _remarques_ were cancelled. These plates were accompanied by explanatory text, and issued in a leatherette case, price 10s. 6d.

Published by Frank T. Sabin, 3 Garrick Street, W.C., and John F. Dexter, 16 Minford Gardens, West Kensington, 1889.

DOMBEY AND SON.--"The Four Portraits of Edith, Florence, Alice, and Little Paul. Engraved [on steel] under the superintendence of R. Young and H. K. Browne. From Designs by Hablot K. Browne. And Published with the Sanction of Mr.

Charles d.i.c.kens." London: Chapman & Hall, 186 Strand, 1848.

In green wrapper, price one shilling. These engravings were also published as proofs on india-paper, 4to, price one shilling each portrait. Some sets coloured.

DOMBEY AND SON.--"Full-length Portraits of Dombey and Carker, Miss Tox, Mrs. Skewton, Mrs. Pipchin, Old Sol and Captain Cuttle, Major Bagstock, Miss Nipper, and Polly. In Eight Plates, Designed and Etched by Hablot K. Browne, and published with the Sanction of Mr. Charles d.i.c.kens." London: Chapman & Hall, 186 Strand, 1848. In green wrapper, price two shillings. Some sets coloured. The series of twenty plates, viz., "The Old Curiosity Shop," "Barnaby Rudge," and "Dombey and Son," were recently reprinted on india-paper, and issued by F. T. Sabin in a portfolio, price 2, 10s.

(_See pp. 100-101._)

"BRUSH."

MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK.--No. 1. Portraits of Master Humphrey, Little Nell, and the Old Man, with remarks on each character, and an address, stating that "The following sketches are the commencement of a series ill.u.s.trating the princ.i.p.al characters in 'Master Humphrey's Clock,' to appear at monthly intervals, in parts similar to the present."

Etchings by "Brush." London, printed for the proprietor by W. T. Davey, 16 Great Sutton Street, Clerkenwell; published by W. Britain, 11 Paternoster Row, 1840. Price one shilling.

ALFRED BRYAN.

CHARACTERS FROM d.i.c.kENS.--Full-length studies of the princ.i.p.al characters. Published in _Jack and Jill_, 1886.

CHRISTOPHER COVENY.

TWENTY SCENES FROM THE WORKS OF d.i.c.kENS.--Designed and etched by Christopher Coveny, with letterpress descriptions.

Sydney: Printed for Thos. H. Fielding by John Sands, 374 George Street, 1883. 4to.

The subjects of eleven of these plates are taken from "Pickwick." A duplicate plate (No. 7), representing Mr.

Pickwick and his friends on the ice, is also included, the subject being re-etched and the design altered because the first plate too much resembled "Phiz's" rendering of this scene.

"ALFRED CROWQUILL" (Alfred Henry Forrester).

PICTURES PICKED FROM THE PICKWICK PAPERS.--Forty lithographs (etchings on stone) by Standidge & Co., from drawings by "Alfred Crowquill," comprising nearly two hundred subjects.

Issued in ten parts (or sheets), buff ill.u.s.trated wrappers, from May 1 to November 9, 1837. Price of each part, one shilling plain, two shillings coloured. Published complete in lavender-tinted wrapper, demy 8vo, and in cloth. London: Ackermann & Co., 96 Strand [1837]. The plates in Part I.

only are signed. Reproductions have also been issued, etched on copper by F. W. Pailthorpe and published by F. T. Sabin, 1880. Price, coloured, 2, 15s., uncoloured, 1, 18s. Within the last few years sets of the "Crowquill" plates have been catalogued at twenty guineas. (_See also_ "Thomas Onwhyn.")

F. O. C. DARLEY.

SCENES FROM d.i.c.kENS.--Eight photo-etchings, from original paintings--the last productions of this American artist.

Issued in a portfolio, and afterwards printed in the Imperial Edition of the novelist's works by Estes & Lauriat, Boston, U.S.A.

A. DULCKEN.

SCENES FROM THE PICKWICK PAPERS.--Designed and drawn on stone by Augustus Dulcken. Four plates, oblong folio, ill.u.s.trated wrapper. Under each plate is a descriptive quotation. London: Bickers & Bush, 1 Leicester Square, N.D.

[1861]. Proofs, 10s. 6d. Very scarce. The subjects of the designs are: (1) Death of the Chancery Prisoner; (2) Meeting of the Ebenezer Temperance a.s.sociation; (3) The Leg of Mutton "Swarry;" (4) The Old Man's Tale about a Queer Client. On the wrapper are depicted portraits of Pickwick, Sam Weller, and Alfred Jingle; and scenes representing the Shooting Party at Wardle's, and Mrs. Weller entertaining Stiggins.

J. W. EHNINGER.

d.i.c.kENS CHARACTERS.--Photographic reproductions of drawings by J. W. Ehninger. Cabinet size, price one shilling each portrait. Published by W. A. Mansell & Co., 316, 317 (now 405), Oxford Street, London, 1876. The series included the following: Mr. Pickwick, Sam Weller, The Fat Boy, Rev.

Stiggins, Mrs. Gamp, Mr. Pecksniff, Little Nell and her Grandfather, Dolly Varden, Florence and Paul Dombey, Edith Dombey (two versions), Little Em'ly, and Little Dorrit.

C. D. GIBSON.

THE PEOPLE OF d.i.c.kENS.--Six large photogravures from original drawings. Issued in a portfolio, proofs, 20s.

London: John Lane; New York: R. H. Russell, 1897. These drawings were originally made for an American publication called _The Ladies' Home Journal_, and were reprinted in _Black and White_ at intervals during 1896-97.

SIR JOHN GILBERT, R.A.

PICKWICK.--"Appleyard's Edition. Price 2d. Plates to ill.u.s.trate the Cheap Edition of the Works of Mr. Charles d.i.c.kens. From original designs by John Gilbert, Esq.

Engraved [on wood] by Messrs. Greenaway & Wright." Eight monthly parts, post 8vo, each containing four plates engraved on wood. Buff ill.u.s.trated wrappers. Part 4 was issued with Part 5 in one wrapper, and the same condition was observed regarding Parts 7 and 8, the price of these double numbers being fourpence. Some of the designs are printed on the front of the wrappers, and on the inside of the back of the last wrapper appears a list of the thirty-two plates, with pagination. A limited number were printed on india-paper. London: E. Appleyard, 86 Farringdon Street, N.D. [1847]. These excellent plates are extremely rare.

NICHOLAS NICKLEBY.--"Appleyard's Edition. Price 2d. Plates to ill.u.s.trate the Cheap Edition of the Works of Mr. Charles d.i.c.kens." Thirty-two designs, engraved on wood by Greenaway & Wright, and published in parts. Post 8vo. The first instalment (with portrait of Squeers on a buff ill.u.s.trated wrapper) contains four designs, which were all that Gilbert produced, the remainder (unsigned) being by inferior artists, the majority engraved by C. M. Gorway. Published complete in a yellow ill.u.s.trated wrapper by E. Appleyard, 86 Farringdon Street, London. Price 1s. 6d.

PLATE LXIX

F. W. PAILTHORPE

From a Photograph by

F. W. CLARK

_Lent by the Artist._