CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS JANUARY 23d TO MARCH 8th NEW YORK THE GROLIER CLUB University of California • Berkeley /?-> -.^. .3 I 0/3 CHARLES DICKENS 1812-1870 Digitized by the Internet Arciiive in 2008 witin funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation littp://www.arcliive.org/details/exliibcatalogueofOOgrolrich CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS JANUARY 23d TO MARCH 8th /yM^olcd/^A^, NEW YORK THE GROLIER CLUB NOTE The exhibition presents in chronological or- der the works of Charles Dickens as they appeared in numbers or in volume form. Grouped around each will be found what- ever has been available in the way of manu- script material and original sketches, together with a representative number of the plays, imitations, and musical productions founded upon Dickens's works. The Reading Edi- tions and Speeches have been placed sepa- rately. Items of interest which may not be classed with the Works of Dickens will be found among Miscellaneous Dickensiana, together with works attributed to him, and a few of the earliest books about the novelist. We are fortunate in being able to show so large a number of original portraits and personal relics, as well as several important manuscripts. The catalogue is descriptive of the exhi- bition and offers no attempt at a bibliography. The date assigned to each group refers to NOTE the completion of the work described. The sizes given conform to the rules of the American Library Association. Thanks are due, not only to the members of the Club, who have placed their collec- tions at the disposal of the Committee with their customary generosity, but also to Mrs. George D. Widener for her kindness in allowing the Committee to draw from the collection left by her son, our late member, Harry Elkins Widener ; to George Barr McCutcheon; to F. R. Kaldenberg; and to the authorities of the South Kensing- ton Museum, London, who extended every courtesy. CONTENTS PAGES The Works of Dickens . 3-190 Speeches 191-196 Miscellaneous Dickens- lANA 197-206 Manuscripts and Letters 207-214 Portraits OF Dickens 215-217 Personal Relics . . . 218-220 CATALOGUE SKETCHES BY BOZ, 1836-1837 The first series of Sketches appeared in February, 1836, and was Charles Dickens's first publication in book form. His earliest published writing was A Dinner at Poplar Walk, which came out in The Monthly Magazine, December, 1833, when he was twenty-one years old, and acting as a reporter in the House of Com- mons. It was afterward entitled Mr. Minns and his Cousin, and is used in the second series of Sketches. Sev- eral of the thirty-five articles of which the first series consists appeared in The Monthly Magazine, the one of August, 1834, being the first to bear the signature, *^Boz." Other Sketches appeared during 1835 and 1836 in The Evening Chronicle, BelPs Life in London, and the Library of Fiction. 3 THE WORKS OF DICKENS The second series was collected in 1837, three of the twenty articles being hitherto unpublished. The preface is dated, FurnivaPs Inn, De- cember 17, 1836, and the date upon the engraved title is 1836. Both series contain plates by George Cruikshank, to whom Dick- ens made graceful reference in the preface. Cruikshank was Dickens's senior by twenty years, and already had an established reputation as an illustrator, so that his cooperation was a distinct advantage. His illus- trations for the Sketches are consid- ered among his best etchings. A second edition of the first series was issued in August, 1836, and third and fourth editions the following year. A second edition of the second series (1837) has two additional plates— The Last Cab Driver, and May-day in the Evening. The first complete edition of the two series was brought out by Chapman and Hall in monthly parts from November, 1837, to June, 4 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 1839, and in volume form in the lat- ter year. Sketches by "Boz/^ | Illustrative Of | Every-day Life, | And | Every-day People. I In Two Volumes. | Vol. I | [Vol. II] I Illustrations By George Cruikshank. | London: | John Ma- crone, St. James's Square. | MDCCC- XXXVI. Duodecimo. Two volumes, in original green cloth binding, with yellow end-papers. First edition. Collation: Vol. I: Title (with imprint on verso); preface (dated February, 1836), and table of contents, pp. [i]-viii; text, pp. [i]- 348. 8 plates by George Cruikshank. Vol. II: Title (with imprint on verso), and table of contents, pp. [i-iii] ; text, pp. [i]- 342. 8 plates by Cruikshank. The I Library Of Fiction, | Or | Fam- ily Story-teller; | Consisting Of | Original Tales, | Essays, And Sketches Of Character. | With Four- teen Illustrations. | Vol. I. | London: 5 THE WORKS OF DICKENS — Chapman And Hall, i86, Strand. | 1836. Octavo. In 7 monthly numbers as issued, with original gray, printed, paper wrappers. This contains A Little Talk about Spring and the Sweeps (pp. 113-119, with a plate by R. W. Buss), which appeared later in the second series of the Sketches, as The First of May, and The Tuggs's at Ramsgate (pp. [i]- 10, with two plates by Robert Seymour), which was published in Philadelphia in 1837, and was added to the collected edition of the Sketches, 1839. The I Tuggs's At Ramsgate, | And I Other Sketches | Illustrative Of Every-day Life And | Every-day Peo- ple. I By Boz. I Author Of | ^Wat- kins Tottle," &c. &c. | To Which Is Added | The Pantomime Of Life, | By The Same Author. | Philadelphia : I Carey, Lea & Blanchard. | 1837. Duodecimo. Original brown paper boards, with white end-papers. First edition of The Pantomime of Life. Collation: "Advertisement", title, preface, and table of contents, pp. [i]-viii; text, pp. [9]-204. From the Advertisement, it appears that The 6 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Tuggs's at Ramsgate had already been issued by the same publishers, but the present vol- ume precedes its English appearance in book form (see Nos. 2 and 8). The publishers had already brought out a collection of the Sketches under the title, Watkins Tottle and Other Sketches, in two volumes, in 1837. The Pantomime of Life first appeared in Bentley's Miscellany, in March, 1837. This is the first publication in book form which contains it. Sketches By Boz: | Illustrative Of Every-day Life, | And E very-day People. I The Second Series. | Com- plete In One Volume. | London: | John Macrone, St. James's Square. | MDCCCXXXVII. Duodecimo. Original pink cloth binding, with black labels and yellow end-papers. First issue of the first edition, without list of illustrations on p. viii. Collation: Half-title, [i unnumbered leaf] ; title (with imprint on verso), preface (dated December 17, 1836), and table of contents, pp. [i]-viii (pp. iv and v numbered ii and iii) ; text (including half-titles), pp. [i]-377; "Mr. Macrone's Select List" (dated Decem- ber, 1836), [10 unnumbered leaves]: pp. 25, 32 and 62 are numbered 52, 23 and 46 re- THE WORKS OF DICKENS spectively; the page number of p. 60 is omit- ted. 10 plates (including frontispiece and etched title, dated 1836) by George Cruik- shank. 5 Another Copy, with fancy blue end- papers. 6 Sketches By Boz | . . . | The Second Series. | [etc., as in No. 4]. Second issue of the first edition, with table of contents reprinted, to leave space for the list of illustrations, which is added on p. viii, the last plate being incorrectly entered. "Vol. Ill," before the page reference, has been im- perfectly erased from the plates. From the collection of Augustin Daly, with the author's presentation inscription to Rich- ard Bentley. 7 Another Copy, with the two addi- tional plates of the second edition (The last Cabdriver, and May-Day in the Evening) inserted. 8 Sketches By Boz | Illustrative Of | Every-day Life And Every-day Peo- ple. I With Forty Illustrations | By | George Cruikshank. | New Edition, 8 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Complete. | London : | Chapman And Hall, 1 86, Strand. | 1839. Octavo. In 20 monthly numbers, as issued, with original pink, printed, pictorial, paper wrappers, designed by Cruikshank, and adver- tisements. First issue of the first complete edition of the two series, with publisher's imprint upon plate, The Greenwich Fair, and following plates. Collation: Half-title, title (with imprint on verso). Advertisement, and table of contents, pp. [i]-viii; text (including half-titles), pp. [i]-526. 40 plates by George Cruikshank. The numbers were issued from November, 1837, to June, 1839, the preliminary leaves appearing with No. 20. Twenty-seven plates were re-etched to suit the larger paper, the plate entitled The Free and Easy was omit- ted, and thirteen new etchings were added. There is an additional article, The Tuggs's at Ramsgate, which had appeared in The Li- brary of Fiction, No. i, 1836. No. 2 contains an Address, dated November 30, 1837, and No. 5 contains a Proclamation announcing Nicholas Nickleby. The Same, In book form, with proofs, before letters, of the plates of the first editions of the two series in- serted. THE WORKS OF DICKENS 10 Proofs on India paper of the plates of Sketches by Boz, 1839. 1 1 Sketches By Boz, | [eight lines] | New Edition, Complete. | Philadel- phia : I Lea & Blanchard, | Successors To Carey & Co. | 1839. Quarto. In 10 monthly numbers as issued, with original blue, printed, pictorial, paper wrappers, and advertisements. 20 plates by Yeager, redrawn from the Cruikshank plates. First complete American edition of the two series. This contains The Public Life of Mr. Tul- rumble and The Pantomime of Life, not in the English collected edition. All the wrap- pers are dated 1838. 12 Sketches By Boz . . . London: Chap- man And Hall . . . 1859. Octavo. 40 plates by George Cruikshank. The original sheets, interleaved and anno- tated, with omitted portions supplied in auto- graph by Richard Heme Shepherd, and a monograph upon the work by him. 13 The Sketch Book by *'Bos'\ contain- ing a great number of highly interest- ing and original Tales, Sketches, &c. 10 THE WORKS OF DICKENS &c. Embellished with seventeen ele- gant engravings. London: Printed and published by E. Lloyd . . . [1837]- Octavo. Issued in 1 1 numbers. Woodcuts. One of the many plagiaristic works, which gave Dickens much annoyance. SUNDAY UNDER THREE HEADS, 1836 This plea for broader Sunday laws was originally announced in No. 3 of the Library of Fiction, 1 836. It prob- ably marks Dickens's first connection with Hablot K. Browne (Phiz), then a young and little known artist, as it was in progress prior to the publica- tion of his first plates for Pickwick Papers. It appeared without Dick- ens's name, and he never cared to reprint it, although two reprints of this scarce pamphlet have been made. II THE WORKS OF DICKENS One, by Jarvis & Son, 1884, has an introduction and extra gray paper wrapper, the plates being badly exe- cuted; the second, by Edwin Pearson of Manchester, has better plates; on p. 7, line 15, the word ''Hair" is mis- printed ''Air". 14 Sunday | Under Three Heads. | [Woodcut] I As It Is; I [Woodcut] I As Sabbath Bills Would Make It; | [Woodcut] I As It Might Be Made. I By Timothy Sparks. | London: | Chapman And Hall, 186, Strand. | 1836. Sixteenmo. Original yellow, printed, pic- torial, paper wrapper. First edition. Collation: Title, [i unnumbered leaf]; half-title and dedication to the Bishop of Lon- don (dated June, 1836), pp. [i]-v; text, pp. [i]-49. 3 full page wood-engravings* (includ- ing frontispiece) by H. K. Browne, who also designed the three heads on the title-page, which are repeated on the wrapper. Some copies have the date erased, probably by a bookseller who wished them to appear to be a new publication. 12 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 15 Sunday | Under Three Heads. | [etc., as in No. 14.] A facsimile reprint, made by Jarvis and Son, 1884, with extra gray, printed wrapper, and introduction. Although it is commonly stated that the words "Sunday Under Three Heads" are omitted at the beginning of Chapter III on p. 35 of this reprint, this copy contains them. THE VILLAGE COQUETTES, 1836 Dickens wrote the drama and songs for this comic opera, which was com- posed by his friend, John HuUah. It was first produced at St. James's Theater on December 6, 1836, was played nineteen times in London, and also acted in Edinburgh. Dickens disliked it intensely, and said that he would not have it reprinted for one thousand pounds. However, a fac- simile reprint was issued in 1878 by 13 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Bentley, who In a note on the verso of the title-page stated it to be a re- print. The operetta is interesting in that it marked the beginning of Dick- ens's acquaintance with his friend and biographer, John Forster. John Pritt Harley, to whom the opera is dedi- cated, was an actor and singer, who took part in it, and whose reputation it is said to have established. John Braham, the tenor, was also in the cast. 1 6 The I Village Coquettes: | A Comic Opera. | In Two Acts. | By Charles Dickens. | The Music By John Hullah. I London : | Richard Bentley, I New Burlington Street. | 1836. Octavo. Issued in gray paper boards. First edition. Collation: Title (with imprint on verso), dedication to J. P. Harley, preface, and Dra- matis Personae (with copyright notice on verso), pp. [1-8]; text, pp. [q]-?! (with im- print on verso). 1 6a Another Copy, in original signatures, unopened and unbound. 14 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 17 Songs, I Choruses, And Concerted Pieces, | In | The Operatic Burletta | Of I The Village Coquettes. 1 As Pro- duced At I The Saint James's The- atre. I The Drama And Words Of The Songs | By ^^Boz.'' | The Music By John Hullah. | The Music is Pub- lished By Messrs. Cramer And Co., I 201, Regent Street. | Printed By Bradbury And Evans, Whitefriars. | 1837. I [Price Tenpence.] Duodecimo. Stitched. Copy presented to Harley, who took the part of Mr. Martin Stokes, with inscription: **J. P. Harley Esqe. With the Author's & Composer's Compts." First edition. Collation: Title (with Dramatis Personae on verso), and text, pp. [i]-i6. 1 8 Music for The Village Coquettes. Folio. The following nine songs are bound together : Love is not a Feeling to pass away. Autumn Leaves, Some Folks who have grown old, The Child and the Old Man, There is a Charm in Spring, My fair Home, How beau- tiful at Eventide, No light Bound of Stag, and A Country Life. All except the last mention The Village Coquettes in their titles, which end with ''The Words By Charles 15 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Dickens, the Music By John HuUah", and are published by Cramer, Addison and Beale. A Country Life is the song There is a Charm in Spring under another title, and is published by Joseph Williams. 19 The I Village Coquettes: | [etc., as in No. 16]. Bentley's facsimile reprint, 1878, with state- ment to that effect on verso of title. Extra- illustrated by F. W. Pailthorpe's original drawing for a frontispiece (issued indepen- dently) and portraits of Dickens and the ac- tors, and accompanied by colored and uncol- ored impressions of the etched frontispiece. THE STRANGE GENTLEMAN, 1837 From early childhood, Dickens was deeply interested in the theater, and at one time applied for regular em- ployment as an actor at Covent Gar- den. Between issuing the first and second series of Sketches by Boz, be- coming interested in John Braham's management of the newly built St. James's Theater, he wrote for Bra- ham ("as a practical joke'\ he ex- 16 THE WORKS OF DICKENS plained) the little farce, The Strange Gentleman, adapted from The Great Winglebury Duel, one of the Sketches. It ran for sixty nights, beginning on September 29, 1836, Dickens being a constant attendant at the theater, at one time, it is said, taking a part in it himself. Printed copies (possibly ad- vance proofs) of the play are said to have been for sale at the St. James's Theater when it was first performed there in 1836, but none are known to exist. A facsimile reprint was issued in 1 87 1 by Chapman and Hall with- out the frontispiece by Browne, and one was added by Pailthorpe. 20 The I Strange Gentleman; | A Comic Burletta, | In Two Acts. | By ^'Boz'\ I First Performed | At | The St. James's Theatre, | On | Thursday, September 29, 1836. | London: | Chapman And Hall, 186, Strand. I MDCCCXXXVII. Octavo. Original mauve, printed, paper wrapper. 17 THE WORKS OF DICKENS First edition. Collation: Title (with imprint on verso), and directions for costumes, [2 unnumbered leaves]; text, pp. [i]-46. Frontispiece by H. K. Browne. The frontispiece and preliminary leaf with directions for costumes are often lacking, and it is thought possible that some copies were issued without the former. 21 Another Copy, with the following in- sertions : The original drawing for the frontispiece, by H. K. Browne.— The original play-bill of St. James's Theater for October 28 and 29, 1836, with the cast of The Strange Gentleman.— Original water-color drawing by John Leech of J. P. Harley, the actor, as "The strange gentleman".— Autograph letter from Dickens to Harley, suggesting a benefit "for the relief of poor Elton's seven children". (E. W. Elton was an actor who lost his life in a disaster at sea, and it was mainly through the exertions of Dickens, aided by members of Elton's own profession, that provision was made for his large family.) 2 2 The I Strange Gentleman; [etc., as in No. 20]. A reprint issued in 1871, without the frontis- piece. One was afterwards etched for it by 18 THE WORKS OF DICKENS F. W. Pailthorpe. The present copy contains Pailthorpe's original water-color drawing for the frontispiece, as well as the colored etching. This reprint may be identified by the follow- ing points in which it differs from the orig- inal: on holding the title-page to the light, it will be seen that the first syllable of "Lon- don", in the imprint on verso, almost over- laps the word "Boz" on recto ; in the original, there is a distance of nearly one eighth of an inch between them; the terminations of the following lines in the reprint are: p. 3, 1. 28, exclamation point under "d" in "and" ; last line of p. 3, "r" in "dinner" under "v" in "very"; p. 4, 1. 5, final period under second "o" of "room"; p. 4, "Mrs. Noakes (aside).", period under apostrophe in "ma'am"; last line of p. 27, "(Rising.)" reaches end of line; last line of p. 37, "s" of "ladies" under "e" of "bed". There are other differences of the same na- ture. IS SHE HIS WIFE? c. 1837 This farce was first performed at St. James's Theater, on March 6, 1837, and is supposed to have been pri- 19 THE WORKS OF DICKENS vately printed at about that time. Mr. James R. Osgood of Boston had in his possession a copy, which is de- scribed as a ''demy 8vo, 32 pp. with- out wrapper/' from which he pro- duced a reprint in 1877. This pam- phlet, the only one known to exist, was unfortunately destroyed in the fire which consumed the business premises of Messrs. Osgood in 1879. In 1902 what is presumably an earlier reprint than the American one of 1877 was discovered by Mr. W. T. Spencer (as described below). From its resemblance to Chapman and HalPs reprint of The Strange Gentle- man, 1 87 1, it was thought that this might be a similar production, and that firm have stated that they are ''inclined to think it was printed for us by either Bradbury & Evans or Dickens & Evans prior to 1873.'' At least three copies of this reprint are now known, and seem to comprise the earliest existing edition of the bur- letta. 20 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 23 Is She His Wife? | Or | Something Singular. | A Comic Burletta | In One Act. I By I Charles Dickens. | [About 1873?]. Duodecimo. Original buff, printed, paper wrapper. Probably the second edition. Collation: Title (with ''First performed", etc., and Dramatis Personae on verso), and text, pp. [i]-22; one blank leaf. 24 Is She His Wife? | Or, | Something Singular. | A Comic Burletta | In One Act. I By Charles Dickens. | [Wood- cut] I Boston: I James R. Osgood And Company, | Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co. | 1877. Thirtytwo-mo. Original brown cloth cover and advertising end-papers bound in. Wood- cuts. With the original sketch, finished water- color drawing, tracing and colored etching designed by F. W. Pailthorpe for a frontis- piece inserted, w First American edition. 21 THE WORKS OF DICKENS BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY AND THE MUDFOG PAPERS, 1837 Dickens was editor of Bentley's Miscellany during 1837 ^^d 1838. To the first number, January, 1837, he contributed the first of his Mudfog Papers, under the title. Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble, once Mayor of Mud- fog. It is not generally known that this paper was reprinted in New York very shortly after its appearance in the Miscellany, the pamphlet contain- ing also the first two chapters of Oliver Twist, as they appeared in the February number of the Miscellany. Both the Public Life of Mr. Tul- rumble and the two chapters of Oliver Twist appeared later in the year as the initial articles of a two-volume collection of Tales and Sketches from Bentley's Miscellany and The Li- brary of Fiction, published by Carey, 22 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Lea and Blanchard, in Philadelphia. The Mudfog Papers with other selec- tions from the Miscellany were col- lected by Bentley in 1880. 25 Bentley's | Miscellany. | Vol. I. | London: | Richard Bentley, | New Burlington Street. | 1837. Octavo. Plates. 26 Extraordinary Gazette. | Speech Of His Mightiness | On Opening The Second Number | Of | Bentley's Mis- cellany, I Edited By ^^Boz'\ Octavo. 4 pp., with woodcut portrait of Dickens in a humorous design by H. K. Browne. This leaflet, written in the style of a royal proclamation, was issued with the second number of the Miscellany. 27 Extraordinary Gazette [etc., as in No. 26]. Sixteenmo. 8 pp., with same woodcut as No. 26. The speech has been reprinted to suit the smaller page, and is followed by advertise- rs THE WORKS OF DICKENS ments of the Miscellany, consisting of a list of contributors, tables of contents of Nos. I, II, and III, and opinions of the press. 28 Public Life I Of I Mr. Tulrumble, | Once I Mayor Of Mudfog, | And | Oliver Twist; | Or, | The Parish Boy's Progress. | By **Boz'\ | Sold By All The Principal Booksellers. | New York. | 1837. Sixteenmo. Original pink, printed, paper wrapper, with heading, "Price 12^ cts. Boz's Last". First edition. Collation: General title, and text of Mr. Tulrumble, pp. [i]-3o; one blank leaf, pp. [31-32]; text of Oliver Twist (two chap- ters), pp. 33-52. In the Advertisement on the back of the wrapper is the following: "There is much genuine humour, and much real fun in the productions of Boz. If they keep up to their present level, they will in conclusion, assume a high place in the ranks of comic literature". The name of the publisher, C. Lohman, ap- pears on the wrapper. 29 The I Mudfog Papers, | Etc. | By | Charles Dickens, | Author Of *^The 24 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Pickwick Papers'', etc. | Now First Collected. | London: | Richard Bent- ley And Son, | Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen. | 1880. | (All rights reserved.) Duodecimo. Original red cloth binding, with dark green end-papers. First collected edition. Collation: Title, and preface, pp. [i]-iv; text, pp. [i]-i98; advertisements, [3 unnum- bered leaves]. The Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble and The Pantomime of Life had already appeared in book form in America (see Nos. 28 and 3). PICKWICK PAPERS, 1837 The fundamental idea of Pickwick Papers is claimed to have been Rob- ert Seymour's. That versatile illus- trator, whose Humourous Sketches, 1833-36, had become very popular, suggested to Messrs. Chapman and Hall a comic series of Cockney Sport- ing Plates, to be published with letter- 25 THE WORKS OF DICKENS press in monthly parts. Although Dickens, at the time, was not as well known as Seymour, he was engaged to furnish the letterpress, and very shortly modified the scheme, changed the title of the work, and became the dominant figure in the undertaking. The Times for March 26, 1836, con- tained an announcement of the com- ing publication of Pickwick Papers. The first shilling number appeared on March 31, two days before Charles Dickens's marriage to Catherine Ho- garth, and it ended with the joint Nos. 19-20 in November, 1837. After the fourteenth number, the pub- lication was interrupted for two months by his grief at the death, in her sev- enteenth year, of Mary Hogarth, Mrs. Dickens's young sister, to whom Dickens was deeply attached. The first twelve numbers had been writ- ten at Furnivars Inn, where Dickens had chambers both before and after his marriage, and in the lodgings at Chalk, where he spent his honeymoon 26 THE WORKS OF DICKENS and a part of the winter of 1 837. By March of that year he felt that the success of his literary undertakings justified him in taking the house at 48, Doughty Street, where Pickwick Papers was completed. The first number of Pickwick Pa- pers contained four plates by Robert Seymour, who committed suicide be- fore the publication of the second number, which contained the three re- maining plates which he had en- graved. Thereafter the parts had two plates, each, but thirty-two pages, instead of the twenty-four, origi- nally agreed upon. No. i contained twenty-six pages. Robert William Buss, referred to in an address issued with the third number, as a **gentle- man already well known as a very humourous and talented artist,'' made two plates. The Cricket Match and an Arbour Scene, which appeared in No. 3, but they were not satisfactory, and he was replaced by Hablot K. Browne (^Thiz"). Thackeray, 27 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Leech and others are said to have applied, unsuccessfully, for the task of continuing the work of illustration. Browne was then a little known illus- trator, barely twenty-one years old, who had served an apprenticeship in line-engraving under the Findens, and been awarded a silver medal by the Society of Arts. Although his first employment upon Dickens's works seems to have been for the illustra- tions of Sunday under Three Heads, it is probable that their first personal contact was in connection with Pick- wick Papers. A lifelong friendship was established between the two. Browne's name is associated with most of Dickens's master-pieces, and he won the title of * ^Artistic expo- nent-in-chief of Dickens's creations." Browne re-etched the plates for No. 3, and made the remaining illustra- tions, using his early soubriquet, **Nemo", for the last time on the early impressions of the plates which he engraved for Nos. 3 and 4. Only 28 THE WORKS OF DICKENS seven hundred copies of No. 3 are said to have been published with the original Buss plates, later copies con- taining the re-etched plates by Browne, signed "Nemo'\ and still other impressions bearing the signa- ture, 'Thiz'\ Only fifteen hundred (some say four hundred) copies of the first numbers were originally printed, and the sales were slow until the appearance of Sam Weller, after which there was an enormous demand for the work, and the early numbers were continually reprinted. Of most, if not all, of the plates duplicates were made, usually containing slight variations, and seem to have been used, irrespective of priority, to expe- dite the printing. Pickwick was issued in book form by Chapman and Hall in 1837, in green, or purple, cloth. The Ser- geant Talfourd to whom the book was dedicated was Thomas Noon Talfourd, best known as the author of the play. Ion, and for his speech in 29 THE WORKS OF DICKENS the House of Commons on the copy- right bill, which he introduced, and which won for him the honor of the dedication. 30 Original Manuscript of a Portion of Pickwick Papers: Chapters XXXV and XXXVI. Quarto. 32 pp. With the exception of two pages (one now in the British Museum, and the other owned by a New York collector) this is all that is known to exist of the manuscript of Pickwick Papers. Two letters and some lines **To Mr. Hicks," all in Dickens's handwriting, accompany it. 31 Thirty-seven Original Sketches for Pickwick Papers, by R. W. Buss and H. K. Browne. Bound in two folio volumes. Sketches by Buss for a title and four plates, and four of Browne's sketches were not used. There are several sketches for Buss's plate. The Fat Boy. 32 The Wrapper of No. i of The Li- brary of Fiction, 1836, with adver- tisement of No. I of Pickwick Pa- pers. 30 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 33 The I Posthumous Papers | Of | The Pickwick Club. | By Charles Dickens. I With I Forty-Three Illustrations, By R. Seymour And Phiz. | London: I Chapman And Hall, i86, Strand. | MDCCCXXXVII. Octavo. In 20 monthly numbers as issued (the last a double number), with original green, printed, pictorial paper wrappers, de- signed by Seymour, and advertisements. First edition. Collation: Half-title, title (w^ith imprint on verso), dedication to Sergeant Talfourd, M. P., preface, table of contents, and direc- tions to the binder (with errata on verso), PP- [i]-[xvi] ; text, pp. [i]-6o9. 43 plates (including frontispiece and engraved title) by Robert Seymour (7), R. W. Buss (2), and H. K. Browne (34). The preliminary leaves were issued with the joint Nos. 19-20, which contain also an engraved title and three plates by H. K. Browne. Each of the remaining numbers con- tains two plates by Browne, with the excep- tion of Nos. I, 2 and 3, which have respec- tively four by Seymour, three by Seymour, and two by Buss. In the first twelve numbers the plates have no titles, but contain numeri- cal page references. In the remaining num- bers the plates have neither titles nor page references. No. 3 contains the original plates 31 THE WORKS OF DICKENS by Buss, and the two plates in No. 4 are signed "Nemo." The covers of Nos. i, 2 and 3 read respectively, "With four illustrations by Seymour", "With four illustrations by Sey- mour", and "With illustrations by R. W. Buss". Nos. 2, 3, 10 and 15 contain Ad- dresses by the author, and Nos. 17, 18 and 19 have special notices by the publishers. All the numbers are dated 1836. In the following summary, the chief points of each number are noted : No. I. "With Four Illustrations | By Sey- mour" on front cover; inside covers blank, with advertisement of The Library of Fic- tion, No. I, on verso of back cover. Heading on p. 26, "Posthumous Papers, &c.", instead of "Posthumous Papers of". Plates: "Mr. Pickwick addresses the Club", the buttons are on the right side of Mr. Pickwick's coat; "The pugnacious cabman", the figure of the milkmaid is clearly defined; "The sagacious dog", the game-keeper's gun has lock and trigger; "Dr. Slammer's defiance of Jingle", there are only ten boards in the floor. No. 2. Covers as described in No. i, with advertisement of The Library of Fiction, No. II. Printed address, announcing the death of Seymour, preceding the plates. Plate: "The dying clown", the listener's hat touches his foot. No. 3. "With Illustrations | By R. W. Buss" 32 THE WORKS OF DICKENS on front cover; inside covers blank; on verso of back cover, advertisement of The Library of Fiction, No. III. In front, the first Pick- wick Advertiser, advertising Sunday Un- der Three Heads, etc., 4 pp. Printed ad- dress, relating partly to Mr. Buss, and *'post- script from the Editor." At end, advertise- ment of Rowland and Son (the first paid advertisement). Plates: The two Buss plates, signed by him. No. 4. Beginning with this number, all cov- ers read "With Illustrations". Inside covers have Chapman and Hall's advertisements; on verso of back cover, advertisement of The Library of Fiction. In front. The Pickwick Advertiser, 4 pp. Plates: "The break down", signed very faintly on the left, "Nemo"; "The first ap- pearance of Mr. Samuel Weller", signed very faintly on the right, "N.E.M.O." No. 5. Inside covers have Chapman and Hall's advertisements; on verso of back cover, advertisement of The Library of Fiction, No. V. In front. The Pickwick Advertiser, 4 pp. At end, advertisement of Bentley's publica- tions, 4 pp., and folding leaf advertising Row- land's Kalydor. Plates: "Mrs. Bardell faints", the bottle is small; "The election at Eatanswill", the beadle's legs are straight. No. 6. Inside covers have Chapman and Hall's advertisements; on verso of back cover, 33 THE WORKS OF DICKENS advertisements of Popular Juvenile Books, etc. At end, The Pickwick Advertiser, 8 pp. Slip, ''Phrenology made easy". Plates: "Fancy dress dejeuner", legend reads mistakenly, "page 169"; "Seminary for young ladies", legend reads mistakenly, "page 154", there is a bell on the door. No. 7. Inside covers have advertisements of The Library of Fiction; on verso of back cover, advertisement of The Pictorial Album. In front. The Pickwick Advertiser, 8 pp. Plates: "Mr. Pickwick in the pound", there are two donkeys; "Mr. Pickwick and Sam", Sam's legs are together. No. 8. Inside covers blank; on verso of back cover, advertisement of The Library of Fic- tion. Another copy shown has advertise- ments on inside covers. Plate: "The last visit", the top of Heyling's chair is shown, and he sits low in it. No. 9. Inside front cover advertises Tilt's Miniature Classical Library; inside back cover. Heath's Picturesque Annual, etc.; on verso. Tilt's advertisements. In front. The Pickwick Advertiser, 12 pp.; advertisements of Jennings & Co., Geo. Henekey & Co., Chapman & Hall, W. S. Orr & Co., and The Parterre, 26 pp. Plates: "Mr. Weller attacks", attendant at back of chair differs from usual plate; "Job Trotter encounters Sam", the cat is different. 34 THE WORKS OF DICKENS No. 10. Inside front cover has C. Tilt's ad- vertisement; inside back cover, advertisements of Pictorial Album and Library of Fiction; on verso, ''Splendidly Illustrated Works." In front, The Pickwick Advertiser. At end, "Literary Announcement". Printed address, dated Dec, 1836. Plates: "Christmas Eve", cat and dog in fore- ground; "The goblin and the sexton", face in tree, bone at a distance from the skull, and no tombstone in lovrer right corner. No. II. Inside covers have Ackermann's ad- vertisements; on verso of back cover, Orr's advertisements. In front, The Pickvvrick Ad- vertiser, 8 pp., the first of these advertise- ments to mention Dickens's name. Plates: "Mr. Pickwick slides", five stumps in foreground, Arabella has left foot forward, black and white dog; "The first interview", Pickwick's glove is close to his hat. No. 12. Inside front cover begins, "New Works"; inside back cover, "Important In- vention" ; on verso, advertisement of Fraser's Magazine for 1837. ^^ front, Pickwick Ad- vertiser, 8 pp. Mechi's catalogue. Plates. "The valentine", no newspaper on floor; "The triar\ no hat on front bench. No. 13. Inside front cover begins, "Impor- tant Invention"; inside back cover advertises Manly Exercise, etc.; on verso, Longman's advertisements. In front, The Pickwick Ad- vertiser, 16 pp. At end, "This day is pub- 35 THE WORKS OF DICKENS lished", etc., 4 pp.; Turrell's advertisement, 2 pp. Plates: "Mr. Winkle's situation", clear white space between hat on ground and shadow be- low it, point of pole on ground in a line with pole; "The card room at Bath", the cards on the table are distinct. No. 14. Inside front cover advertises Lodge's Portraits, etc. ; inside back cover. The Court Magazine; on verso, Charles Tilt's publica- tions. In front. The Pickwick Advertiser, No. XIV, 24 pp. At end, Baldwin and Cra- dock's publications, 8 pp. Plates: "The conviviality of Bob Sawyer", books are laid down, and there is one on top shelf to right of window; "Mr. Pickwick sits for his portrait", no star in middle pane of top row in window. No. 15. Inside front cover advertises Samuel Weller's Illustrations to the Pickwick Club; inside back cover, Cunningham's Gallery of Pictures; on verso, J. Sanger's advertise- ments. In front. The Pickwick Advertiser, No. XV, 16 pp.; London Parcels Delivery Company; Address (4 pp., with advertise- ments), announcing the resumption of the work which had "been interrupted by a severe domestic affliction", and "Notice to Correspon- dents". At end, 24 pp. of advertisements, and specimen plate of Beattie's Scotland Illus- trated. Plates: "The Warden's room" (ist), no 36 THE WORKS OF DICKENS loop at end of clothes-line; **The Warden's room (2nd), signed "Phiz, del". No. 16. Inside front cover advertises Samuel Weller's Illustrations ; Inside back cover. New Works on India; on verso. New Works in the press. In front, The Pickwick Adver- tiser, No. XVI, 8 pp. Plates: ''The red-haired man discourseth", legs of chair are turned; ''Mrs. Bardell en- counters Mr. Pickwick in prison", handrail on left of steps, and cockade In Weller's hat. No. 17. Inside front cover advertises Chubb's New Patent Detector Lock; Inside back cover. Fourth Edition, Sketches of Young Ladles, etc. ; on verso. Gardener's Ga- zette. In front. The Pickwick Advertiser, No. XVII, 8 pp. (containing phrase, "the cir- culation of the Work being 26,000" ) . At end, 26 pp. of advertisements. Between plates and text Is the publisher's address, dated Aug. 26, i837> 2 pp. Plates: "Mr. Winkle returns", top shelf at right is empty, dishes on second shelf of closet; "The bagman's uncle", bundle to right of lantern not corded. No. 18. Inside front cover advertises Wel- ler's Illustrations ; Inside back cover. Gems of Beauty, etc. ; on verso. Splendid Annuals, etc. In front, The Pickwick Advertiser, No. XVIII, 16 pp. (containing phrase, "the circu- lation of the Work being 29,000"). At end, 14 pp. of advertisements. Publishers' address, 37 THE WORKS OF DICKENS dated Sept. 29, 1837, announcing the comple- tion of the work, etc., 2 pp. Plates: "The rival editors," side of dresser has jug and toasting fork; "Bob Sawyer on the roof of the stage". Irishman's stick has no bundle tied to it. Nos. 19-20. Inside front cover advertises Seymour's Popular Sketches; inside back cover, Orr's publications; on verso, T. Cox Savory's advertisement. In front. The Pick- wick Advertiser, Nos. XIX and XX, 24 pp. At end, 5 pp. of advertisements, and Mechi's catalogue, 20 pp. Publisher's address, dated Oct. 30, 1837. Plates: "The fat boy and Mary", the knife in boy's hand points downward; "Mr. Weller and his friends", floor-boards run lengthwise, there is a bottle beside the glass on table. Frontispiece, Pickwick's stool has only four stripes, the signing of the plate is divided by the Tupman tablet; engraved title, the sign reads, "Tony Veller" (instead of Weller), and in the signboard "Marquis Granby's" stick is almost perpendicular. 34 The I Posthumous Papers | Of The | Pickwick Club: [ [seven lines] | Philadelphia : | Carey, Lea & Blan- chard. | i836[-37]. Duodecimo. 5 volumes, in the original 38 THE WORKS OF DICKENS boards, with brown cloth backs and paper labels. First American edition, and first edition of the first volume in book form. The first volume of this edition is dated 1836. The first English edition in book form was issued in 1837. 35 The I Posthumous Papers | Of | The Pickwick Club. | By Charles Dickens. I With Fifty-four Illustrations, by R. Seymour, Phiz and | Crowquill. | New York: | James Turney, Jr. 55, Gold-Street. | MDCCCXXXVIII. Octavo. In 26 monthly numbers, as issued, with original, green, printed, pictorial paper wrappers. 54 plates (including engraved title). 36 Pickwick and Mrs. Bardell. (Paint- ing in Grisaille, by Charles R. Leslie, R.A.). A commission to the artist ; engraved on wood for the frontispiece of the first cheap edition of Pickwick Papers, 1847 (see next number). 37 The Posthumous Papers of the Pick- wick Club . . . with a Frontispiece 39 THE WORKS OF DICKENS from a design by C. R. Leslie, Esq., R. A. Engraved by J. Thompson. London: Chapman and Hall . . . MDCCCXLVIL Duodecimo. In the present volume, the fron- tispieces, titles, dedications and prefaces of the volumes comprising the first cheap edition are bound together. 38 Hablot K. Browne's Original Draw- ings for seven illustrations for the Household Edition of Pickwick Pa- pers, 1874. 39 The Posthumous Papers of the Pick- wick Club . . . edited by Charles Dickens, the Younger . . . London Macmillan and Co . . . 1886. Octavo. Two volumes. Illustrations. The Jubilee Edition, published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of Pickwick Papers. 40 The Posthumous Papers of the Pick- wick Club . . . with the 43 original Illustrations and 223 additional Pic- tures . . . collected and annotated 40 THE WORKS OF DICKENS by C. Van Noorden . . . London Chapman & Hall, Limited. 1909. Octavo. Two volumes. Illustrations. The Topical Edition. 41 The Posthumous Papers of the Pick- wick Club . . . Illustrated by Cecil Aldin . . . London, Chapman and Hall, 1910. Folio. Two volumes. Colored plates, head- and tail-pieces, and initial letters. 42 Mr. Pickwick Illustrated in Colour by Frank Reynolds, R. I. Hodder & Stoughton, London [1910]. Folio. Colored plates. One of 350 copies, signed by the artist. 43 Extra Illustrations to Pickwick Pa- pers by **Alfred CrowquilP' (Alfred Henry Forrester), 1837. Pictures Picked from the Pickwick Papers. London : Ackermann & Co., 1837- Nearly 200 subjects on 40 plates; lithographs in color, issued in 10 parts, in buff wrappers from May i to November 9, 1837. 41 THE WORKS OF DICKENS They were also published complete in laven- der wrapper, and in cloth, the same year. In 1880, F. T. Sabin published reproductions, etched on copper by F. W. Pailthorpe. 44 Extra Illustrations by William Heath, Pickwickian Illustrations . . . Pub- lished by Thomas McLean. 1837. 20 etchings, with ornamental paper wrapper, having title printed in gold on a black label. 45 Extra Illustrations by Thomas On- whyn, 1837. . . . Thirty-two Illustrations to the Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club ... By Mr. Samuel Weller. London : Published by Grattan & Gil- bert . . . [1837]. 32 colored etchings, most of them signed "Samuel Weller, delt"; issued in 8 monthly parts, in green wrappers. 46 Extra Illustrations by Thomas Sib- son, 1838. Sketches of Expeditions from the Pickwick Club, by T. Sibson. Lon- 42 THE WORKS OF DICKENS don : Published by Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper. 1838. 10 etchings, with letterpress, and green wrap- per, bearing the title: Sibson's Racy Sketches of Expeditions, from the Pickwick Club. 47 Extra Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne, 1847. Illustrations to the Cheap Edition of the Works of Mr. Charles Dickens. London, Darton & Clark, [and others] . . . [1847]. Octavo. 6 wood-engravings, issued in green wrapper. 48 Extra Illustrations by Sir John Gil- bert, 1847. Plates to illustrate the Cheap Edition of The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club . . . from Original Designs by John Gilbert, Esq. En- graved by Messrs. Greenaway and Wright. London; E. Appleyard . . . [1847]- Duodecimo. 32 wood-engravings, issued in 8 monthly parts in buff wrappers. A few im- pressions on India paper exist. 43 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 49 Extra Illustrations by Thomas On- whyn, 1847. Twelve Illustrations To The Pick- wick Club by T. Onwhyn. London: Albert Jackson . . . 1894. 12 etchings executed in 1847, and issued in 1894, ii^ three states, India proofs, colored by Pailthorpe, and plain. The plates exhibited are colored. 50 Anonymous Extra Illustrations, 1847. For Binding with the Cheap Edition. Original Illustrations to The Pick- wick Papers. [London,] W. Strange, [1847]. To be completed in eight parts. Four engravings published monthly. Octavo. 16 wood-engravings, issued in 4 monthly parts in green wrappers. The fourth part is supposed to be the final one, in spite of the statement in the title that eight parts would be published. 51 Extra Illustrations by Frederick W. Pailthorpe, 1882. a. Pailthorpe's Original Water-color Drawings for the twenty-four Illus- trations described below (No. 51b), 44 THE WORKS OF DICKENS together with Original Drawings for vignettes on three extra title-pages etched by Pailthorpe for the Victoria Edition, 1892. b. 24 Illustrations To The Pickwick Club By Fredk. W. Pailthorpe, Lon- don: Robson & Kerslake, 1882. 24 etchings of scenes not previously illus- trated, in green wrapper. These are accompanied by three vignette- titles (colored and uncolored copies of each), etched by Pailthorpe for the Victoria Edi- tion, in 1892. c. Another set, colored and lettered in pencil by the artist, and accom- panied by the original tracings, and proofs on India paper, before letters, of all the plates. 52 Extra Illustrations by ''Kyd'' (Joseph Clayton Clark). 18 water-color drawings. 53 An Account of the Origin of 'Tick- wick Papers". By Mrs. Seymour, Widow of the distinguished Artist 45 THE WORKS OF DICKENS who originated the Work. With Mr. Dickens's Version, and her Reply thereto showing the Fallacy of his Statements . . . London Printed for the Author . . . [1849]. Octavo. Mrs. Seymour's own copy, with four of the original Seymour drawings, three un- published letters, and Dickens's original letter to the artist in relation to the illustrations. Accompanied by the reprint of the work, 1901. 54 R. W. Buss's Original Manuscript Statement of his Grievances, with photographs of the plates, trial proofs, etc. Dated, '^Camdentown, March 2, 1872." Quarto. 125 pp. The Evening Post, January 28, 191 1, con- tained a description of this little known manu- script. 55 Dickens' Christmas Story of Goblins Who Stole a Sexton Illustrated by Thos. Nast McLoughlin Bros. New- York [1867]. Quarto. 31 + i pp., including illustrated cover- title. Woodcuts. 46 THE WORKS OF DICKENS This is one of a series of books for children, issued by McLaughlin Brothers in 1867. The Story of the Goblins who stole a Sexton forms the twenty-eighth chapter of Pickwick Papers. In the original edition, two chapters are numbered twenty-eight. This story is the second of these. 56 Sam Weller, or, The Pickwickians. A Drama, in three Acts. As per- formed at the New Strand Theatre, with unexampled success. By W. T. Moncrieff, Esq . . . London: Pub- lished for the Author, and sold by all respectable Booksellers. 1837. (Price one shilling only. ) Octavo. Prompter's copy, interleaved, with annotations and pen-and-ink plans for the scenes. An autograph letter from W. T. Moncrieff is inserted. The play was first performed on July 17, 1837. For programme of play, The Pickwickians, see No. 278. 57 Bardell v. Pickwick. (The Trial Scene from Pickwick.) A Farcical Sketch, in one Act. By Charles Dick- ens. Arranged for the Stage from 47 THE WORKS OF DICKENS the Author's special Reading Copy by John Hollingshead . . . New York : Robert M. DeWitt . . . [n.d.] (De- Witt's Acting Plays, No. i66.) Duodecimo. Original yellow, printed, paper wrapper. 58 Sam Weller's Pickwick Jest-Book, in which are concentrated all the funny sayings of Sam and his Companions, and upwards of 1000 Jokes, Epi- grams, Jeux d'Esprit, &c. including Joe Miller's renowned Jests. Lon- don: Orlando Hodgson, [1837]. Twentyfour-mo. 24 portraits of Pickwickian characters, signed "W. C. W.". Original black cloth cover bound in. Also issued by Berger in penny numbers. 59 Pickwick in America: Detailing all the remarkable adventures of taat (sic) Illustrious Individual and his learned Companions in the United States; extraordinary Jonathanisms, collected by Mr. Snodgrass, and the Sayings, Doings, and Mems, of the facetious Sam Weller, Edited by 48 THE WORKS OF DICKENS ^'Bos'' . . . London: Printed and published by E. Lloyd . . . [1837]. Octavo. In II monthly numbers, as issued, with original printed, pictorial, paper wrap- pers of various colors. Woodcuts. Also issued in penny weekly numbers. It has been attributed to G. W. M. Reynolds. 60 Posthumous Papers of the Wonder- ful Discovery Club, formerly of Cam- den Town, established by Sir Peter Patron. Edited by Poz. With Illus- trations designed by Squib, and en- graved by Point. London: William Mark Clark . . . [1838]. Octavo. Issued in parts, with brown, printed, pictorial, paper wrapper. 11 plates. 61 The Beauties of Pickwick. Collected and arranged by Sam Weller. 'Trom grave to gay— from lively to severe". Price twopence. London: Published by W. Morgan . . . 1838. Octavo. Stitched. 62 The Beauties of Pickwick [etc., as in No. 61]. A facsimile reprint of the preceding. 49 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 63 On the Origin of Sam Weller, and the Real Cause of the Success of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, by a Lover of Charles Dick- ens's Works. Together with a Fac- simile Reprint of The Beauties of Pickwick . . . London : J. W. Jarvis & Son . . . 1883. Octavo. Original gray, printed paper wrap- per; with reprint of The Beauties of Pick- wick at end. Colored frontispiece by F. W. Pailthorpe. The writer suggests that the original of Sam Weller was Samuel Vale, an actor at the Surrey Theater. The suggestion was made originally by Mr. E. L. Blanchard in the Birmingham Daily Gazette, April 7, 1882. 64 Pickwick Abroad; or, The Tour in France. By George W. M. Reynolds . . . London: Printed for Thomas Tegg . . . 1839. Octavo. 41 plates by A. W. Crowquill and John Phillips, and woodcuts by Bonner. 65 The Post-humourous Notes of the Pickwickian Club, edited by ''Bos" 50 THE WORKS OF DICKENS . . . London : Printed and published by E.Lloyd . . . [1842]. Octavo. Woodcuts. In parts, as issued, with wrappers entitled The Penny Pickwick, con- taining the Humorous Adventures, etc. Woodcuts. George A. Sala wrote of this: ''This dis- graceful fabrication had an enormous sale; and fraudulent as was the enterprise, and base as were the motives of the publisher, they could not fail to testify to the wonderful and universal popularity of Charles Dickens." OLIVER TWIST, 1838 Dickens's second great work was written at Furnivars Inn and Doughty Street. Forster says that it took an extraordinary hold upon the author, and that he never knew him to work until such late hours as during the final months of writing it. Oliver Twist appeared in Bentley's Miscel- lany from February, 1837, to March, 1839, and was illustrated with twen- 51 THE WORKS OF DICKENS ty-four etchings by George Cruik- shank, who claimed, apparently with- out foundation, to have suggested to Dickens the idea of the story. The completed work was published by Bentley in three volumes in Novem- ber, 1838, the first issue bearing the same title as the magazine numbers (see No. 69), and containing the sup- pressed plate, the so-called Fireside scene. This plate was displeasing to Dickens, and another, representing Rose Maylie and Oliver at the tomb of Agnes, was finished in time to ap- pear in the Miscellany, though not in the first issue in book form, which came out before the final numbers of the magazine. A much re-worked state of the Fireside plate exists, showing that Cruikshank made efforts to have it retained. A second issue contains the later plate and has the title shortened to "Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens, Author of The Pickwick Papers." The second edition appeared in 52 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 1839. In an edition published in ten monthly parts in 1846, for which the plates were much retouched by Find- lay, Agnes's dress has been changed from a light shade to black. In later editions, the long title was resumed. The original manuscript of ^'Oliver Twist'' is in the possession of the South Kensington Museum. 66 George Cruikshank's Original Water Color Drawings for Oliver Twist. 24 drawings, with **title-page", bordered with small copies of the drawings, and inscribed "This sketch is intended as a sort of Title Page to the Twenty four water colour Sketches, compiled by me— George Cruik- shank— from my illustrations of Oliver Twist and made especially for my friend F. M. Cosens. September 27, 1866." 67 George Cruikshank's Original Pencil Sketches for the following plates. a. Oliver asking for more. b. Oliver introduced to the respect- able Old Gentleman. c. Oliver claimed by his affectionate friends. 53 THE WORKS OF DICKENS d. Oliver's reception by Fagin and the boys. e. The Last Chance. 68 Oliver Twist, bound from Bentley's Miscellany, February, 1837-March, 1839, with the plates as issued in the parts. 69 Oliver Twist; | Or, The | Parish Boy's Progress. | By **Boz'\ | In Three Volumes. | Vol. I | [Vols. II & III] I London; | Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. | 1838. Octavo. Three volumes, in original brown cloth binding, with yellow end-papers. First issue of the first edition, with long title, as above, and list of illustrations, the last plate showing the Fireside Scene, for which the Scene at Agnes's Tomb was substituted. Collation: Vol. I: Half-title (with adver- tisement of Barnaby Rudge on verso), title, and list of illustrations, [3 unnumbered leaves]; text, pp. [i]-33i; advertisements, PP- [333-337]- 9 plates by George Cruik- shank. Vol. II: Half-title (with advertisement on verso), and title (with imprint on verso), [2 54 THE WORKS OF DICKENS unnumbered leaves]; text, pp. [i]-307. 7 plates by Cruikshank. Vol. Ill : Advertisements, and title (with im- print on verso), [2 unnumbered leaves] ; text, PP- [i]~3i5- 8 plates by Cruikshank. 70 Another Copy, with the Introduction to the Third Edition (xii pp., dated April, 1 841), and 18 extra-illustra- tions by *^Kyd*' inserted. 71 Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens, Author Of *The Pickwick Papers'' [etc., as in No. 69]. Second issue of the first edition, with short title, as above, and the substituted plate showing Rose Maylie and Oliver at Agnes's tomb. Copy presented by Dickens to J. P. Harley. 72 The I Adventures | Of | Oliver Twist; I Or, I The Parish Boy's Progress. | By I Charles Dickens. | With Twenty- four Illustrations On Steel, By | George Cruikshank. | A New Edi- tion, Revised And Corrected. | Lon- don: I Published For The Author, | 55 THE WORKS OF DICKENS By Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars. I MDCCCXLVL Octavo. In ten monthly numbers, as issued, with original green, printed, pictorial paper wrappers, and advertisements. 24 plates. For this edition the plates were re-touched by Findlay. It was also issued in volume form, in slate-colored cloth. 73 Oliver Twist. | By | Charles Dickens, I (Boz!) I [Four lines] | Philadel- phia : I Lea And Blanchard, | Succes- sors To Carey & Co. | 1839. Duodecimo. Two volumes, in original brown paper boards. Probably the first appearance in America of any part of Oliver Twist was in the volume described in our No. 28, which contained the first two chapters. Wilkins says that what may really be called the first American edition of the entire work was a reprint from Bent- ley's published in New York by William and Jemima Welker. In 1838, Lea and Blan- chard began to issue an edition in numbers, but before its completion they published the work in two volumes as described above. The interest of this edition lies in the follow- ing amusing note in the first volume: "A large portion of the last part of Oliver Twist having been sent to the American Publishers in manuscript, they hasten to place before the 56 THE WORKS OF DICKENS public the work complete in the present form. At the same time, they have to regret that the illustrations by Cruikshank, were not ready to accompany the manuscript from London 74 Extra Illustrations by F. W. Pail- thorpe, 1886. Twenty-one Illustrations to Oliver Twist. By F. W. Pailthorpe. [Lon- don, Robson & Kerslake, 1886.] Quarto. Portfolio containing half-title, list of etchings and twenty-one colored plates. Two hundred sets of these illustrations were issued, fifty sets of India proofs in black, fifty sets of India proofs in bistre, fifty sets col- ored, and fifty sets plain. 75 Pollock's Juvenile Drama. Oliver Twist. Or The Parish Boy's Progress. A Drama, In Three Acts, 6 Plates of Characters, 13 Scenes, i Set Piece 3 Wings. Total 23 Plates. . . . Lon- don . . . [1839?] Sixteenmo. With 23 separate colored plates, as enumerated in title. Original pink, printed paper wrapper. The plates were also issued uncolored. Some of them bear the imprint of J. Redington. 57 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 76 Chefs d'Oeuvre du Siecle lUustres. Ch. Dickens Olivier Twist . . . [Paris] 1892. Sixteenmo. Original gray, printed, pictorial, paper wrapper, with title as above. Wood- cuts. 77 Charies Dickens. Olivier Twist, Les Voleurs de Londres. Traduction de La BedoUiere. Nouvelle Edition re- vue. Vingt gravures. Limoges, Eu- gene Ardant & Cie [n.d.] Quarto. Original red cloth binding. 20 woodcuts. 78 The Life and Adventures of Oliver Twiss the Workhouse Boy . . . Lon- don. Published by E. Lloyd . . . [1839] Octavo. Issued in 79 numbers with buff, printed, pictorial, paper wrappers. Woodcuts. With preface, signed "Bos". This is said to be by Gilbert a Becket. 58 THE WORKS OF DICKENS SKETCHES OF YOUNG GENTLEMEN, 1838 In 1837, Chapman and Hall had published a half-crown volume called Sketches of Young Ladies ... by "Quiz'' (Edward Caswell), which many had attributed to Dickens, who wrote Sketches of Young Gentlemen as a companion volume to this, as well as a humorous protest against it. There is a second edition of 1838, and in 1849 an edition appeared in a limp wrapper at one shilling. 79 Sketches | Of | Young Ladies: | In Which These Interesting Members Of The Animal | Kingdom Are Clas- sified, I According To Their Several I Instincts, Habits, And General Characteristics. | By ''Quiz''. | With Six Illustrations By | 'Thiz". | Lon- don: I Chapman And Hall, 186, Strand. | MDCCCXXXVII. 59 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Sixteenmo. Original blue paper boards with pictorial design by H. K. Browne, and yellow end-papers. 6 plates (including frontispiece) by H. K. Browne. First edition. Although this is by Edward Caswell, it is shown in conjunction with Sketches of Young Gentlemen, as its only interest lies in its con- nection with that work. 80 Original Manuscript of Sketches of Young Gentlemen. Quarto. Dedication, 5 pp. ; text, 104 pp. ; con- clusion, 4 pp. 81 Sketches | Of | Young Gentlemen. | Dedicated to the Young Ladies. | With Six Illustrations | By | ^Thiz'\ | London: | Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand. | MDCCCXXXVIIL Sixteenmo. Original blue paper boards, with pictorial design by H. K. Browne, and yello^\^ end-papers. First edition. Collation: Title (with imprint on verso), table of contents, and dedication "To the Young Ladies of the United Kingdom", pp. [i]-viii; text, pp. [i]-76; advertisements, 60 THE WORKS OF DICKENS pp. [77-80]. 6 plates (including frontispiece) by H. K. Browne. 82 Set of the six plates of Sketches of Young Gentlemen, in undivided state. Original impressions, 1838. MEMOIRS OF JOSEPH GRIMALDI, 1838 Joseph Grimaldi was a famous ac- tor and clown whose memoirs Dick- ens edited, writing the preface and concluding chapter. The original manuscript was at one time owned by Henry Stevens. Only the preface is in Dickens's handwrit- ing, the remainder having been dic- tated to his father, who enjoyed act- ing as his son's amanuensis. 83 Memoirs | Of | Joseph Grimaldi. | Edited By | ^*Boz'\ | With Illustra- tions By George Cruikshank. | In Two Volumes. | Vol. I. | [Vol. II.] 61 THE WORKS OF DICKENS I London: | Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. | 1838. Octavo. Two volumes, in original pink cloth binding, with white end-papers. First issue of the first edition, without border on plate, The last Song. Collation: Vol. I: Half-title (with imprint on verso), title, table of contents, and intro- ductory chapter, pp. [i]-xix; text, pp. [i]- 288. Frontispiece-portrait of Grimaldi by Greatbatch after Raven, and 6 plates by George Cruikshank. Vol. II: Half-title (with imprint on verso), title, and table of contents, pp. [i]~ix; text, pp. [i]-263 (with imprint on verso). "Mr. Bentley's List of New Works", 36 pp. 6 plates by Cruikshank. 84 Memoirs | Of | Joseph Grimaldi [etc., as in No. 83]. Second issue of the first edition, bound in dark brown cloth, with grotesque border by A. H. Forrester ("Alfred Crowquill"), around the plate. The last Song. 85 F. W. Pailthorpe's Original Water- color Drawings for six plates illus- trating the Memoirs of Joseph Gri- maldi, together with a set of the plates. 62 THE WORKS OF DICKENS NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, 1839 In order to make this account of the cheap boarding schools carried on at the time as true to life as possible, Dickens and Browne visited many of the schools before beginning the work, in February, 1838. It was written chiefly at Doughty Street, and appeared in monthly parts from April, 1838, to October, 1839, hav- ing been announced, in 1838, by a mock proclamation, signed ^*Boz". Almost fifty thousand copies of the first number were sold on the day of issue, and the story became so popu- lar that unauthorized dramatizations appeared before it was finished. After the publication of the sixth part Syd- ney Smith wrote ^^Nickleby is very good; I stood out against Mr. Dick- ens as long as I could, but he has con- quered me'\ Dickens received £150 63 THE WORKS OF DICKENS a number from his publishers for the work, and on its completion they gave him £1500 in addition in acknowledg- ment of its success. At least two sets of the plates seem to have been en- graved. The portrait by Maclise was painted for the purpose of having an engraved frontispiece-portrait for the book, and was presented by Dickens to the publishers. 86 Original Manuscript of portions of Nicholas Nickleby: Chapters IX, X, XV, XVI, XVII and XX. Quarto. 165 pp. 87 Hablot K. Browne^s Original Draw- ings for plates of Nicholas Nickleby. 88 Proclamation announcing Nicholas Nickleby, dated February 28, 1838, and signed *^Boz'\ Octavo. 4 pp. 89 The I Life And Adventures | Of j Nicholas Nickleby. | By Charles Dickens. | With Illustrations By 64 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Phiz. I London: | Chapman And Hall, 1 86, Strand. | MDCCCXXX- IX. Octavo. In 20 monthly numbers, as issued (the last a double number), with original green, printed, pictorial, paper wrappers, de- signed by Browne, and advertisements. First issue of the first edition, with word "visiter" instead of "sister" on p. 123, line 17. Collation: Half-title, title (with imprint on verso), dedication to Macready, preface, table of contents and list of plates, pp. [i]-xvi ; text, pp. [ 1 3-624. Frontispiece-portrait by Finden after Maclise, and 39 plates by H. K. Browne. Each number contains 2 plates, with the ex- ception of Nos. 14 and 15. There were none in 14, on account of the illness of the artist, and No. 15 contains four. Nos. 17-20 con- tain an advertisement of the engraved por- trait which appeared in the last number, to- gether with the preliminary leaves. On the plates in the first two numbers ap- pears the publisher's imprint. 90 Set of the thirty-seven plates of Nich- olas Nickleby. 91 Extra Illustrations to Nicholas Nick- leby by Peter Palette (Thomas On- whyn), 1838-39. 65 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Illustrations to Nicholas NIckleby Edited by ^^Boz'\ By Peter Palette, Esqr. [London,] E. Grattan . . . [1838-39]. 40 etchings in two states, colored and uncol- ored, issued in nine parts, with green and buff wrappers. They were afterwards published in volume form. 92 Extra Illustrations by Joseph Kenny Meadows, 1839. The Nickleby Gallery containing twenty-four Portraits. Heads from Nicholas Nickleby from Drawings by Miss LaCreevy. London: Robert Tyas . . . [1839]. 24 wood-engravings, issued in six parts in pink or tan wrappers. 93 Nicholas Nickleby. A Farce, in Two Acts. Taken from the popular work of that name, by ''Boz". By Edward Stirling, Esq ... As performed at the Royal Adelphi Theatre . . . Illus- trated with an engraving, by Pierce Egan the Younger, from a drawing taken during the representation. Lon- 66 THE WORKS OF DICKENS don : Chapman and Hall, 1 86, Strand. [1838?] (Webster's Acting Na- tional Drama.) Octavo. Original pink, printed, pictorial, pa- per wrapper. Frontispiece. This play, called by Forster "an indecent as- sault", was dedicated to Dickens, and was first performed on November 19, 1838. 94 Nicholas Nickelbery. Containing the Adventures, Mis-adventures, Chances, Mis-Chances, Fortunes, Mis-for- tunes, Mys-teries, Mis-eries, and Mis- cellaneous Manoeuvres of the Family of Nickelbery. By ^^Bos'\ Embel- lished with forty-two engravings. London: Printed and published by E. Lloyl (sic) . . . [1838] Octavo. Issued in penny weekly numbers, and fourpenny monthly parts. Woodcuts. A parody of the story and characters under slightly changed names. 95 Scenes from the Life of Nickleby Married . . . being a Sequel to the **Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby,'' as edited by ^^Boz'\ With 67 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Illustrations by ''Quiz''. London: John Williams . . . 1840. Octavo. Issued in 22 weekly numbers (in 18), with green, printed, pictorial, paper wrappers, some of which bear the words, "Edited by 'Guess* ", instead of '*as edited by *Boz' '\ Plates in the style of H. K. Browne. A plagiaristic attempt. No. i contained a slip regarding Nicholas Nickleby. 96 Two "Nicholas Nickleby Valentines", representing Mr. and Mrs. Squeers. SKETCHES OF YOUNG COUPLES, 1840 This was written for Chapman and Hall, and published without Dick- ens's name, as a companion volume to the two little books already brought out by them,— Sketches of Young Ladles, by Quiz, 1837, written by E. Caswell, and Sketches of Young Gentlemen, 1838, by Dickens. A sec- ond edition appeared the same year. 68 THE WORKS OF DICKENS The original manuscript is in the possession of the South Kensington Museum. 97 Hablot K. Browne's six Original Drawings for the plates of Sketches of Young Couples. Bound in a copy of the work. 98 Sketches | Of | Young Couples; | With An I Urgent Remonstrance To The Gentlemen Of England | (Being Bachelors Or Widowers), | On The Present Alarming Crisis. | By | The Author of **Sketches Of Young Gen- tlemen". I With Six Illustrations | By I *Thiz". I London: | Chapman And Hall, 186, Strand. | MDCCCXL. Sixteenmo. Original blue paper boards, with pictorial design by H. K. Browne, and yellow end-papers. First edition. Collation: Half-title, title (with imprint on verso), table of contents, and "An Urgent Re- monstrance'*, pp. [i]-i2; text, pp. [i3]-92; advertisements, p. [1-4]. 6 plates (including frontispiece) by H. K. Browne. 69 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 99 Sketches | Of | Young Couples & Young Gentlemen. | By ''Boz". | And Of I Young Ladles. | By '^Quiz.'' | With Illustrations By 'Thiz". New York : Scribner And Welford. [n.d.] Duodecimo. Original red cloth binding, with green end-papers. i8 plates. These were issued collectively in England in 1843. The present issue, with the American title-page, seems to be the first American edi- tion of the Sketches of Young Couples. Sketches of Young Gentlemen was published in Philadelphia in 1838. MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK, 1 840-1 841 Master Humphrey's Clock ap- peared in eighty-eight weekly num- bers from April 4, 1840, to Novem- ber 27, 1 841. It includes Old Curi- osity Shop, Nos. 4-45, and Barnaby Rudge, Nos. 46-87. Of the former Forster says, that he never knew 70 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Dickens to end a story with such sorrowful reluctance as this: **It makes me very melancholy*', he wrote, **to think that all these people are lost to me forever, and I feel as if I never could become attached to any new set of characters''. Dickens's original plan for Master Humphrey's Clock was to make the serial work consist of short stories and essays from his pen, but finding that this was not a success, he began Old Curiosity Shop in No. 4, following it with Bar- naby Rudge, for the historical por- tions of which he made careful re- search at the British Museum. Late in 1839, Dickens had moved from Doughty Street to a large house at No. I, Devonshire Terrace, and much of these tales was written there and at Broadstairs, where he spent many summers. The work was also issued in twenty monthly numbers, and then published in book form. Both novels were issued separately, from the un- 71 THE WORKS OF DICKENS sold sheets without the preliminary matter. The illustrations are wood- cuts, instead of the etchings hitherto used in Dickens's works. H. K. Browne is said to have prepared three blocks for the work which were not used, though Dexter considers that only one of them was intended for it. In the work of illustration, Dickens invited George Cattermole, noted for his scenes from mediaeval history, and Daniel Maclise to cooperate with Hablot K. Browne. Maclise, the genial Irish artist, had studied at the Royal Academy schools, and achieved success as a painter of Shakespearian scenes, when in 1836 he was intro- duced by John Forster to Dickens, and from that time the three were fast friends. Probably owing to the stress of other work, Maclise made only one illustration (Little Nell and the Sexton, in Old Curiosity Shop Vol. II, p. 108). The woodcut in Vol. I, p. 46, is signed by Samuel Williams, who is thought, by Kitton, 72 THE WORKS OF DICKENS to have engraved it from Catter- mole's design. Most of the original manuscript of Master Humphrey's Clock is in the possession of the South Kensington Museum. 99a. Hablot K. Browne's Original Drawings for several of his illustra- tions for Master Humphrey's Clock. 100 Master Humphrey's Clock. | By Charles Dickens. | With Illustrations I By I George Cattermole And Hab- lot Browne. | Vol. I | [Vols. II-III.] I London: | Chapman And Hall, 186, Strand. | MDCCCXL-[MDCCC- XLI] Octavo. In 88 weekly numbers (arranged for three volumes), as issued, with original white, printed, pictorial, paper wrappers. First edition. Collation: Vol. I. 1840. Frontispiece and title (with imprint on verso), [2 unnumbered leaves] ; dedication to Samuel Rogers [on p. 3 of white wrapper, verso blank] ; preface, pp. [iii]-iv; text, pp. [i]-3o6. 55 woodcuts by Browne and Cattermole. 73 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Vol. II. 1 841. Frontispiece, title (with im- print on verso), and preface, pp. [i]~vi; text, PP* [i]-3o6. 50 woodcuts by Browne, Cat- termole and Maclise. Vol. III. 1 841. Frontispiece, title (with im- print on verso), and preface to Barnaby Rudge, pp. [i]-vi; text, pp. [i]-426. 63 woodcuts by Browne and Cattermole. The preliminary leaves for the three vol- umes are found in Nos. 26, 52, and 88. loi Master Humphrey's Clock [etc., as in No. 100]. In 20 monthly numbers, with green, printed, pictorial paper wrappers. 102 The Old Curiosity Shop . . . London: Chapman And Hall . . . 1841. As issued separately, from the unsold sheets. Mrs. Smithson's copy, with letter from Dick- ens inserted. 103 Little Nell. Ballad, the Words by Miss Charlotte Young, the Music ... by George Linley. London, Published by Cramer, Beale & Co . . . Folio. Title, and 5 pp. of music. 104 Barnaby Rudge . . . London: Chap- man And Hall . . . 1841. 74 THE WORKS OF DICKENS As issued separately, from the unsold sheets. Mrs. Smithson's copy, with letter from Dick- ens inserted. 105 The Original Agreement, signed by Thomas Langdale, for the purchase of premises in Holborn for his busi- ness as a distiller, which premises were afterwards burned in the Gor- don Riots, as described in Barnaby Rudge, where Langdale is mentioned by name. Folio. The Agreement is dated, October 2, 1772, and is signed also by Morphew Yerra- way, the vendor. 106 Extra Illustrations to Master Hum- phrey's Clock by Thomas Sibson, 1840-41. Illustrations of Master Humphrey's Clock, in seventy [-two] Plates, de- signed and etched on steel. By Thomas Sibson. The Old Curiosity Shop.— Barnaby Rudge. [Vignette] London: Robert Tyas . . . MDCCC- XLII. 72 plates, with title and list of illustrations, 75 THE WORKS OF DICKENS issued in 1840-41 in 18 parts in green wrap- pers, and afterwards in two volumes, 1842. The present copy has several of the original wrappers bound in. 107 Extra Illustrations by *^ Jacob Paral- ltV\ 1840-41. Jacob ParallePs Hands to Master Humphrey's Clock: or, Sketches from the Clock Case. London; G. Berger . . . [1840-41.] 12 etchings on steel, issued in two parts with green wrappers. Many of the plates bear remarques. 108 Extra Illustrations by T. C. Wilson, n.d. Illustrations to Master Humphrey's Clock. 4 lithographs, issued without a wrapper, and with the title as above, followed by the num- ber of the plate at the top of each lithograph. Two of them are signed "T. C. W.*' 109 Extra Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne, 1848-49. a. Four Plates engraved under the 76 THE WORKS OF DICKENS superintendence of Hablot K. Browne and Robert Young, to illustrate the first Cheap Edition of *The Old Curiosity Shop'\ Published with the approbation of Mr. Charles Dickens. London; Chapman and Hall . . . 1848. b. Four Plates engraved under the superintendence of Hablot K. Browne and Robert Young, to illustrate the Cheap Edition of ^'Barnaby Rudge''. Published with the approbation of Mr. Charles Dickens. London: Chapman and Hall . . . 1849. 2 sets of 4 stipple engravings each, issued in green wrappers. In the present instance, each plate is repre- sented in two states of India proofs, one with, and the other without, the publishers' names. They are accompanied by a proof on Japan paper of the design for the cover, and re- marque proofs of portraits of Little Nell and Dolly Varden, engraved by Edwin Rofle, from hitherto unpublished drawings by H. K. Browne, and published in 1889. iio . . . Master Humphrey's Clock; a domestic Drama ... By Frederick 77 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Fox Cooper ... As performed at the London Theatres. London: Printed and published by J. Dun- combe & Co . . . [n.d.] (Dun- combe's Acting Edition of the British Theatre.) Sixteenmo. Original green, printed, pictorial, paper wrapper. Frontispiece by Findlay. Ill Master Timothy's Book-case; or, The Magic Lanthorn of the World. By George W. M. Reynolds . . . New edition . . . London : Published at the Office of ^^Reynolds's Miscellany'' . . . 1847. Octavo. Original green cloth binding. Woodcuts. This imitation was first published in 1842. THE PIC NIC PAPERS, 1841 John Macrone, Dickens's first pub- lisher, had died, leaving his wife and 78 THE WORKS OF DICKENS children in great poverty. Dickens edited this work, consisting of volun- tary contributions by some of the greatest writers of the day, in order to help them, the sum of £300 being realized for Mrs. Macrone. Dick- ens's own contribution was The Lamplighter's Story (Vol. I, pp. [i]-32), adapted from a play which he had written for Macready, but which was not published until after his death (see No. 229). The third volume was not edited by Dickens. 112 The I Pic Nic Papers. | By Various Hands. | Edited By | Charles Dick- ens, Esq. I Author Of | *The Pickwick Papers," ^^Nicholas Nickleby," &c. | With Illustrations by George Cruik- shank. Phiz, &c. | In Three Volumes. I Vol. I. [Vols. II & III] I London: | Henry Colburn, Publisher, | Great Marlborough Street. | MDCCCXLI Octavo. Three volumes, in original light green cloth binding, with yellow end-papers. First edition. 79 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Collation: Vol. I: Title (with imprint on verso), introduction, table of contents and list of illustrations, pp. [i-vii] ; text, pp. [i]- 323. Frontispiece and 3 plates by George Cruikshank and H. K. Browne. Vol. II: Title (with imprint on verso), and table of contents, [2 unnumbered leaves] ; text, pp. [i]-298. Frontispiece and 3 plates by H. K. Browne. Vol. Ill: Title (with table of contents and imprint on verso) [pne unnumbered leaf] ; text (including half-titles), pp. [i]-378. Frontispiece and 5 plates by R. J. Hammer- ton. AMERICAN NOTES, 1842 On January 3, 1842, Dickens sailed for America, where he was welcomed enthusiastically, as the letters of wel- come, invitations, and newspaper ar- ticles preserved in the Forster Collec- tion at the South Kensington Museum go to prove. He returned in June, and in the following October pub- lished his impressions of the country. 80 THE WORKS OF DICKENS The work was so popular in England that four editions were published be- fore the end of the year, but his frank criticisms of American manners were not pleasing in this country. During his second visit, in 1868, he an- nounced at a public dinner that all fu- ture editions of American Notes and Martin Chuzzlewit (which also con- tained unfriendly comment) should contain a postscript expressing his **honest testimony to the national gen- erosity and magnanimity". This post- script, under the title, A Debt of Honor, appeared in All the Year Round, on June 6, 1868. In the first issue of American Notes, the pagination of the prelimi- nary matter of the first volume allows for sixteen pages, while there are but ten, the mistake being caused by the cancellation of a preliminary chapter without the necessary correction of the pagination. The suppressed chap- ter was printed by Forster in his Life of Dickens. 81 THE WORKS OF DICKENS The original manuscript is in the possession of the South Kensington Museum. 113 American Notes | For | General Cir- culation. I By Charles Dickens. | In Two Volumes. | Vol. I. | [Vol. II] | London: | Chapman And Hall, 186 Strand. | MDCCCXLII. Octavo. Two volumes, in original purple cloth binding, with yellow end-papers. With presentation inscription from Dickens to Thomas Carlyle, and Carlyle's book-plate and signature. First issue of the first edition, with last page of "Contents" numbered "xvi". Collation: Vol. I: One leaf (with publish- er's advertisement on verso), half-title, title (with imprint on verso), dedication to Dick- ens's friends in America, "who . . . loving their country can bear the truth when it is told good- humouredly, and in a kind spirit", and table of contents, pp. [i]-x (wrongly numbered xvi) ; half-title, p. [xi], verso blank; text, pp. [i]- 308. Vol. II: Half-title, title, and table of con- tents, pp. [i]-vii; text (including half-titles to chapters), pp. [i]-3o6; advertisements, pp. [307-312]. 82 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Change for the American Notes: in Letters from London to New York. By an American Lady. **Look here upon this picture and on this.^^ Lon- don: Wiley & Putnam . . . 1843 . . . Octavo. Original violet cloth binding, with yellow end-papers. This has been attributed to Henry Wood. A CHRISTMAS CAROL, 1843 Written at Devonshire Terrace at odd moments during the creation of two numbers of Martin Chuzzlewit, the Christmas Carol took a strong hold upon its author, who wrote that, in its composition, he wept over it, **and laughed and wept again, and ex- cited himself in a most extraordinary manner". On its publication, at Christmas time, its popularity and the influence that it exerted were remark- 83 THE WORKS OF DICKENS able, cheering Dickens In his discour- agement over the somewhat disap- pointing reception of the first numbers of Chuzzlewlt. John Leech's services were engaged as Illustrator of the Carol. Leech was then twenty-six years old, and for two years had been contributing drawings to Punch, of which he was soon to become the leading spirit. Of a gentle and kindly humorous dis- position, he thoroughly entered Into the spirit of the Christmas Stories, and became their chief Illustrator. For the Carol he prepared eight de- signs, four of them being etchings which were afterwards colored by hand, and the others, woodcuts which were engraved by W. J. Linton. This first Christmas book was fol- lowed by four others,— The Chimes, 1845, (No. 131) ; The Cricket on the Hearth, 1846, (No. 135) ; The Bat- tle of Life, 1846, (No. 149); and The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, 1848, (No. 162). 84 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 115 Original Manuscript of A Christmas Carol. Quarto. Title-page, preface, and 66 pp. At the foot of the title-page, Dickens has written "My own and only Ms. of the Book. Charles Dickens". This is accompanied by a facsimile reproduc- tion, published by Brentano, in 1890. 116 John Leech's Original Water-color Sketch for plate, The Last of the Spirits. 117 A Christmas Carol. | In Prose. | Be- ing I A Ghost Story of Christmas. | By I Charles Dickens. | With Illustra- tions By John Leech. | London: | Chapman & Hall, 186, Strand. | MDCCCXLIII. Sixteenmo. Original reddish brown cloth binding, with gilt design on cover and back, gilt edges and green end-papers. First issue of the first edition, with title printed in red and blue, and "Stave I" on p. i of text. Collation: Half-title, title (with imprint on verso), preface, and table of contents, [4 un- numbered leaves]; text, pp. [i]-i66; Adver- 85 THE WORKS OF DICKENS tisements, pp. [167-168]. 4 colored plates and 4 woodcuts by John Leech. 118 Another Copy, identical with the pre- ceding in all respects, except that the end-papers are yellow. John Forster's copy, now in the South Ken- sington Museum, is identical with this. 119 A Christmas Carol [etc., as in No. 117]. Second issue of the first edition, with title printed in red and blue, "Stave One" on p. i of text, and yellow end-papers. 120 A Christmas Carol [etc., as in No. 117] London: | Chapman & Hall, 186, Strand. | MDCCCXLIV. Another issue, with later title-page, printed in red and green. "Stave I" as in No. 117. There are in existence too many copies of this variant to encourage our belief in the old theory that a few were struck off to enable the author to determine which style was pref- erable. It seems permissible to suppose that, the mistake of "Stave I'* having been cor- rected while the book was going through the press, in the haste of printing the six thou- sand copies which were sold on the day of 86 THE WORKS OF DICKENS issue, the new sheets were laid on the top of the pile waiting to be gathered. A new title- page, dated 1844, having been printed before the last sheets were used, those at the bottom of the pile, with the mistake uncorrected, were naturally bound up with it. 121 A I Christmas Carol. | In Prose. | Be- ing I A Ghost Story of Christmas. | By I Charles Dickens. | With Illustra- tions By John Leech. | Philadelphia : I Carey & Hart. | 1844. Sixteenmo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt design on back in facsimile of the original edition, and white end-papers. 4 colored lithographs and 4 woodcuts. This early American edition is very similar to the original. The title is printed in red and blue, and the colored plates are reproduced by lithography. The woodcuts are separate plates, instead of being printed in the text. All the "staves" are numbered by Roman nu- merals. For songs founded on A Christmas Carol, see No. 278. 87 THE WORKS OF DICKENS A WORD IN SEASON, 1844 Dickens contributed this poem to The Keepsake, the fashionable An- nual, edited by Lady Blessington. It is included in his Plays and Poems, 1882. 122 The I Keepsake | For | MDCCC- XLIV. I Edited By | The Countess Of Blessington. | London: | Long- man, Brown, Green, And Longmans. I New York: Appleton And Co. | Paris : L. Curmer . . . | Octavo. Original pink watered silk binding, with yellow end-papers. Frontispiece, en- graved title and plates. A Word in Season, pp. 73-74. 123 Autograph Letter from Dickens to the Countess of Blessington, dated July 5, 1843, referring to his promise of a contribution: **If I can think of THE WORKS OF DICKENS anything, though it be but a scrap of rhyme, I will send it you by the end of the week''. MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT, 1844 Martin ChuzzleWit was issued in monthly numbers from January, 1843, to July, 1844, and appeared in one volume, bound in green cloth, in 1844. The sale of the early num- bers was slow and discouraging, al- though, in later years, it stood next to Pickwick Papers and David Copper- field in popularity. Incensed by the reception of American Notes in this country, Dickens introduced further criticisms in Chuzzlewit, although he added a postscript, softening their severity, to editions published after his second visit to America in 1868. A curious mistake occurred in the engraved title, where **£ioo", on the signboard is made to read 89 THE WORKS OF DICKENS '*ioo£.'' This was changed, or another plate was made, reading *^£ioo/' Others of the illustrations, which were etched on quarto plates, two on each plate, show variations in differ- ent copies, five of them having been etched three times, and the remainder twice. 1 24 Announcement of Martin Chuzzlewit. Octavo. 4 pp. 125 The I Life And Adventures | Of | Martin Chuzzlewit. | By Charles Dickens. | With Illustrations By Phiz. I London: | Chapman And Hall, 186, Strand. | MDCCCXLIV. Octavo. In 20 monthly numbers, as issued (the last a double number), with original, green, printed, pictorial, paper wrappers, de- signed by Browne, and advertisements. First issue of the first edition (so-called), with "£" mark after the figures on the sign- board in engraved title. Collation: Half-title, title (with imprint on verso), dedication to Miss Burdett Coutts, preface, table of contents, and list of plates, pp. [i]-xiv; errata, p. [xv] ; text, pp. 90 THE WORKS OF DICKENS [i]-624. 40 plates (including frontispiece and engraved title) by H. K. Browne. The preliminary leaves were issued with the joint Nos. 19-20, in which are also 4 plates, the remaining numbers containing 2 plates each. 126 The I Life And Adventures | Of | Martin Chuzzlewit. | By | Charles Dickens. | With Illustrations By Phiz. I New- York : | Published By Harper & Brothers, | No. 82 Cliff-Street. | 1844. Octavo. In 7 numbers, as issued, with orig- inal green, printed, pictorial, paper wrappers (the wrapper of No. i is white). 14 plates. Probably the first American edition. At the top of the covers is printed: **To be com- pleted in seven parts, at 6% cents, each part containing three numbers of the English edi- tion with two steel engravings." Lea and Blanchard of Philadelphia also pub- lished an early edition of Martin Chuzzlewit. For programmes of play founded upon Mar- tin Chuzzlewit, see No. 278. 127 Extra illustrations to Martin Chuz- zlewit, by '*Kyd'' (Joseph Clayton Clark). 18 water-color drawings. 91 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 128 Leven et Lotgevallen van Maarten Chuzzlewit . . . naar het Engelsch van Charles Dickens . . . Te Am- sterdam, bij Hendrik Frljllnk. 1843 [-44]. Octavo. In 21 numbers (arranged for 3 vol- umes) as issued, with light blue, printed, pic- torial, paper wrappers. Plates. EVENINGS OF A WORKING MAN, 1844 Dickens edited these stories by John Overs, a poor carpenter dying of con- sumption, and wrote a preface of eight and a half pages relative to the author. His attention was first called to the writer by his friend Dr. Elliot- son, to whom the work is dedicated. 129 Evenings | Of | A Working Man, | Being The Occupation Of | His Scanty Leisure: | By John Overs. | With A Preface Relative To The Author. I By Charles Dickens. | Lon- 92 THE WORKS OF DICKENS don: I T. C. Newby, 72 Mortimer Street, | Cavendish Square. | 1844. Sixteenmo. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt edges and yellow end-papers. First edition. Collation: Half-title, [i unnumbered leaf] ; title printed in blue and red (with imprint on verso), dedication to Dr. Elliotson and pref- ace, pp. [i]-xiii (verso blank) ; table of con- tents, p. xiv (verso blank) ; text, pp. [i]-205; advertisements, pp. [206-208]. THE CHIMES, 1845 This is Dickens's second Christmas book, and was written in Italy, **at a time when he was longing for the streets of London at night". *^Some- thing powerful I think I can do", he wrote, **but I want to be tender too, and cheerful ; as like the Carol in that respect as may be, and as unlike it as such a thing can be". Wishing to try its effect upon his friends, he made a hurried trip to London, and read it to a few of them gathered at Fors- 93 THE WORKS OF DICKENS ter's house on December 3. The reading, which was commemorated by the well-known drawing by Mac- lise, was also notable as the forerun- ner of his public readings. Though issued late in 1844, the book was dated 1845. For the illustration of The Chimes it was decided to depart from the plan of the Christmas Carol, and gain variety by engaging more than one artist, though John Leech contin- ued to be the principal illustrator, contributing five designs. Maclise furnished two, while two new artists were added to the list of Dickens's illustrators. Richard Doyle, son of the caricaturist, John Doyle, and al- ready noted for his fanciful designs of elves, goblins and fairies, fur- nished four drawings for the initial pages of the chapters, and Clarkson Stanfield, the greatest marine painter of his time, a member of the Royal Academy and Dickens's intimate friend, readily granted the author's 94 THE WORKS OF DICKENS request for assistance by providing two drawings, for which he refused to accept payment. The original manuscript of The Chimes is in the possession of the South Kensington Museum. 130 John Leech's Original Drawings for five illustrations of The Chimes. Bound in a copy of the first edition. 131 The Chimes: | A Goblin Story | Of I Some Bells That Rang An Old Year Out | And A New Year In. | By Charles Dickens. | London: | Chapman And Hall, 186, Strand. | MDCCCXLV. Sixteenmo. Original red cloth binding, with gilt design on cover and back, gilt edges and yellow end-papers. First issue of the first edition, with the names of the publishers engraved upon the cloud in the lower part of the engraved title. Collation: Advertisement of A Christmas Carol, half-title, title (with imprint on verso), and list of illustrations, [4 unnumbered leaves]; text, pp. [i]-i75 (with imprint on verso). Frontispiece, engraved title and 11 95 THE WORKS OF DICKENS woodcuts by Maclise, Doyle, Leech and S tan- field. Johnson speaks of a unique copy with many of the woodcuts not printed in the spaces left for them, and the lower part of the woodcut on p. 125 differing from that in the published work, showing a misapprehension on the part of John Leech, the illustrator. Copies in yellow boards of this and others of the Christmas books belong to "remainder" editions. 132 Another Copy, with presentation in- scription from Dickens to his son, Charles Dickens, Jr. 133 The Chimes [etc., as in No. 131]. Second issue of the first edition, with the names of the publishers in open letters at the lower edge of the engraved title. 134 The Chimes Quadrille, Composed for the Musical Bouquet. Most re- spectfully Inscribed to Charles Dick- ens, Esqre [London, n.d.] Folio. [4] pp. With lithographed title, simi- lar to the engraved title of The Chimes. 96 THE WORKS OF DICKENS THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH, 1846 Dickens had contemplated founding a weekly periodical, to be called The Cricket, intended to *^put everybody in good temper, and make such a dash at people's fenders and arm-chairs as hasn't been made for many a long day," and his third Christmas Story was the outcome of this idea. It had the same illustrators as The Chimes, with the addition of a woodcut of Boxer, the dog, from a design by Sir Edwin Landseer, for whom Dickens had the greatest admiration and per- sonal regard. Leech, Doyle, Stan- field and Maclise contributed seven, three, one and two illustrations re- spectively. Though dated 1846, the book was published in December, 1845, and is the only publication of that year. It met with enormous success, and a 97 THE WORKS OF DICKENS dramatization was published at once by Albert Smith and performed at the Lyceum Theatre. The work marks the beginning of Dickens's con- nection with Bradbury and Evans as his publishers, instead of Chapman and Hall. The original manuscript is in the possession of Miss Hogarth, Dick- ens's sister-in-law. 135 The I Cricket On The Hearth. | A | Fairy Tale Of Home. | By | Charles Dickens. | London: | Printed And Published For The Author, | By Bradbury And Evans, 90 Fleet Street, I And Whitefriars. | MDCCCXLVL Sixteenmo. Original red cloth binding, with gilt design on cover and back, gilt edges, and yellow end-papers. First edition. Collation: Half-title, title (with imprint on verso), dedication to Lord Jeffrey, and list of illustrations, [4 unnumbered leaves] ; text ; pp. [i]-i74; advertisements, pp. [175-176]. Frontispiece, engraved title, and 12 woodcuts by Maclise, Doyle, Stanfield, Leech, and Landseer. 98 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 136 The I Cricket On The Hearth. | A Fairy Tale Of Home. | By | Charles Dickens. | New-York: | Harper & Brothers, Publishers, | 82 Cliff Street. I 1846. Octavo. Original brown, printed, paper wrapper. 137 The entirely new and original Drama, in three parts, entitled The Cricket on the Hearth A Fairy Tale of Home. Dramatized by Albert Smith . . . From early Proofs of the Work, by the express permission of the Author, Charles Dickens, Esq. As performed at the Theatre Royal, Lyceum . . . London: Printed and published by W.S.Johnson . . . [1845]. Duodecimo. Original cream-colored, printed, paper wrapper, dated 1845. 138 The Cricket on the Hearth, A Fairy Tale of Home. By Edward Stirling, Esq ... as performed at the The- atre Royal, Adelphi. Correctly printed from the Prompter's Copy 99 THE WORKS OF DICKENS . . . splendidly illustrated with an etching, by Mr. G. Dorrington, taken during the representation of the piece. London: Published at the National Acting Drama Office . . . [n.d.] (Webster's Acting National Drama, No. 124.) Duodecimo. Original cream-colored, printed, paper wrapper. Frontispiece. First performed on December 31, 1845. 139 The Cricket on the Hearth A Fairy Tale of Home In Three Chirps Adapted from Mr. Charles Dickens's popular Story. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy . . . [n.d.] (Lacy's Acting Edition.) Duodecimo. Original yellow, printed, paper wrapper. Frontispiece by T. H. Jones. 140 The Cricket on the Hearth A Fairy Tale of Home In Three Chirps Adapted from Mr. Charles Dickens's popular Story. London: Samuel French . . . New York: Samuel French & Son . . . [n.d.] (French's Acting Edition.) 100 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Duodecimo. Original yellow, printed, paper wrapper. For programme of play, The Cricket on the Hearth, see No. 278. 141 Das Heimchen auf dem Herde. Eine Elfengeschichte von Charles Dickens. Illustriert von Conrad Beckmann. Leipzig Verlag von Adolf Titze. [n.d.] Folio. Original red cloth binding, gold- stamped. Woodcuts. PICTURES FROM ITALY, 1846 In July, 1844, the Dickens family left England for Italy, remaining there for a year, Dickens making a short visit to London in December, for the purpose of reading The Chimes to his friends. In January, 1846, he became the first editor of the Daily News, contributing a letter descriptive of his Italian travels to the first number, lOI THE WORKS OF DICKENS January 21. He resigned the editor- ship in February, but continued his Italian letters until March 2, under the title, Travelling Letters, written on the Road. The seven sketches were published in book form under the title, Pictures from Italy, five chapters being added from Dickens's letters to Forster. A portion of the original manu- script is in the possession of the South Kensington Museum. 142 The Daily News for January 21- March 2, 1846, in which the Pictures from Italy first appeared under the title, Travelling Letters. 143 Pictures from Italy. | By | Charles Dickens. | The Vignette Illustrations on Wood, by Samuel Palmer. | [Vignette] | London: | Published For The Author, | By Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars. 1 MDCCCXL- vi. 102 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Duodecimo. Original bright blue cloth bind- ing, with yellow end-papers. Presentation copy to W. C. Kent, with inscription in Dick- ens's autograph pasted to inside cover. First edition. Collation: Advertisements, half-title, title (with imprint on verso), and table of con- tents, [4 unnumbered leaves]; text, pp. [i- 270]; advertisements, pp. [271-272]. Title vignette and three woodcuts by Samuel Palmer. 144 Another Copy, with presentation in- scription from Dickens to Douglas Jerrold. 145 Another Copy, interleaved, with an- notations by Richard Heme Shep- herd showing the differences between the articles as issued in the papers and as issued In book form. 146 Travelling Letters. | Written On The Road. I By Charles Dickens. | New- York: I Wiley & Putnam, 161 Broad- way. I 1846. Duodecimo. Part I, in brown, printed, paper wrapper. "Wiley and Putnam's Library of Choice Reading". 103 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Probably the only separate edition of these letters as they appeared in The Daily News. As they were taken directly from the news- paper, it is possible that their appearance pre- ceded that of Pictures from Italy. A second part, containing the four remaining letters is said to have been issued. The lettering on the back of Part I shows that the original intention was that the book should be thicker. 147 Facts & Figures from Italy. By Don Jeremy Savonarola, Benedictine Monk, addressed during the last two winters to Charles Dickens, Esq. be- ing an Appendix to his **Pictures". London: Richard Bentley . . . 1847. Duodecimo. By "Father Prout" (Francis Sylvester Ma- hony). Following the title-page, is this printed Notice: Having engaged the Father who signs himself "D. J. Savonarola" to enter on this correspondence, it only remains for me to say that these are his Letters. Charles Dickens. 104 THE WORKS OF DICKENS THE BATTLE OF LIFE, 1846 This, Dickens's fourth Christmas story, was written In Switzerland, and dedicated to his English friends there. It had the same four Illustrators as The Chimes, Leech, Doyle and Stan- field supplying three illustrations each, and four coming from Macllse. Dickens afterwards regretted using the Idea upon which it was based for so short a story. While writing it, he was busy upon Dombey and Son, and at one time doubted his ability to finish The Battle of Life in time for Christmas, but the work was pub- lished on December 19, 1846. 148 Original Manuscript of The Battle of Life. Quarto. 50 pp., with letter from Miss Ho- garth inserted. 149 The I Battle of Life. | A Love Story. I By I Charles Dickens. | London: | 105 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars. | MDCCCXLVI. Sixteenmo. Original red cloth binding, with gilt design on cover and back, gilt edges, and yellow end-papers. First issue of the first edition. Collation: Half-title, title (with imprint on verso), dedication to "My English Friends In Switzerland'\ and list of illustrations, [4 unnumbered leaves] ; text (including half- titles), pp. [i]-i75 (with imprint on verso) ; one unnumbered leaf of advertisements. Frontispiece, engraved title and 11 woodcuts by Maclise, Doyle, Leech and Stanfield. There are four issues of the first edition, dis- tinguishable by small differences in the en- graved title-page as described below. The present issue, hitherto apparently un- described by bibliographers, contains the words "A LOVE STORY." printed below the illustration. Imprint: London: | Pub- lished by Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars. | 1846. I 150 The I Battle of Life [etc., as in No. 149]. Second issue of the first edition, with "A Love Story.", in a simple scroll, in open letters on the engraved title-page. Imprint same as first issue. 106 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 151 Another Copy, with proofs of the Illustrations, on India paper, before the text, laid in. 152 The I Battle of Life [etc., as in No. 149]- Third issue of the first edition, with different scroll containing the words "A Love Story**, supported by a cherub. Imprint in one line without date. 153 The I Battle of Life [etc., as in No. 149]. Fourth issue of the first edition, with en- graved title-page same as in the third issue, but without publisher's imprint. 154 The Drama founded on the new Christmas Annual of Charles Dick- ens, Esq., called The Battle of Life, dramatized by Albert Smith . . . From early Proofs of the Work, by the express permission of the Author ... as performed at the Theatre Royal, Lyceum, Monday, December 21,1846 . . . London : Printed and 107 THE WORKS OF DICKENS published by W. S. Johnson . . . [1846]. Duodecimo. Original green, printed, paper wrapper, with advertisements. DOMBEY AND SON, 1848 Although Dickens was making plans for Dombey and Son as early as 1844, he did not begin to write the story until June 27, 1846, while he was at Lausanne, finishing It at Dev- onshire Terrace, in the spring of 1848, nearly two years later. Forster considered that there was nothing in all Dickens's writings better than the life and death of Paul Dombey. The chapter describing his death, which, it has been said, '^threw a whole nation Into mourning", was written in Paris on January 14, 1847, ^^^ during the greater part of the following night Dickens was ^'wandering desolate and 108 THE WORKS OF DICKENS sad about the streets of Paris.'* Some of the Illustrations are considered the best efforts of H. K. Browne. Two sets of the plates were etched to ex- pedite the printing, and some parts were issued with lithographs, accord- ing to J. F. Dexter, to satisfy the de- mand for copies until the duplicate plates could be etched. The work appeared in monthly parts from October, 1846, to April, 1848, and was published in one vol- ume, in green cloth, in 1848. The original manuscript and cor- rected proofs are in the possession of South Kensington Museum. 155 Dombey And Son. | By | Charles Dickens. | With Illustrations By H. K. Browne. | London: | Bradbury And Evans, 11, Bouverie Street. | 1848. Octavo. In 20 monthly numbers, as issued (the last a double number), with original green, printed, pictorial, paper wrappers, de- signed by Browne, and advertisements. First edition. 109 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Collation: Errata, half-title, title (with im- print on verso), dedication to the Marchion- ess of Normanby, preface, table of contents, and list of plates, pp. [i]-xvi; text, pp. [i]- 624. 40 plates (including frontispiece and engraved title) by H. K. Browne. The preliminary leaves appeared with the joint Nos. 19-20, in which are also 4 plates, the other numbers containing 2 each. 156 Dealings | With The Firm Of | Dom- bey And Son, | Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation. | By | Charles Dickens. | New-York: | Wiley And Putnam. | 1846 [-48]. Duodecimo. In 17 numbers, as issued, with original bu£F, printed, paper wrappers. Plates. Probably the first American edition. At the bottom of the paper wrappers is printed: "The Illustrations for this Number will be given with the Next". The *Thiz" plates are redrawn, and engraved on wood by J. W. Orr. On the completion of the edition in parts, the work was published in two volumes, in red cloth, with the Lawrence portrait, engraved on wood, for a frontispiece. In connection with this are shown No. i, in green wrapper, of an edition published at the Star Spangled Banner Office, Boston, 1846, which bears the legend, "First American Re- print—Correct Edition", and is without illus- IIO THE WORKS OF DICKENS trations, and No. 7, in pink, pictorial wrap- per, dated 1847, of ** Jones's Cheap Edition", also published at the Star Spangled Banner Office. It is in double columns, on poor pa- per, with two woodcut illustrations. 157 Dombey And Son. | By | Charles Dickens. | With Illustrations By H. K. Browne. | Boston : | Bradbury And Guild, 12 School Street. | 1848. Octavo. In 20 monthly numbers, as issued (the last a double number), with original green, printed, pictorial, paper wrappers. Plates. This edition is remarkable for its close resem- blance to the original English edition, in plates, cover, quality of paper and letter-press. Of the last, Wilkins says that "it might al- most be taken for advance sheets of the orig- inal edition". 158 Extra Illustrations by H. K. Browne, 1848. a. Dombey and Son. The Four Por- traits of Edith, Florence, Alice, and Little Paul, engraved under the Su- perintendence of R. Young and H. K. Browne, from Designs by Hablot K. Browne, and Published with the III THE WORKS OF DICKENS Sanction of Mr. Charles Dickens. London: Chapman and Hall, i86, Strand, 1848. 4 plates, with green wrapper. b. Dombey and Son. Full-length Portraits . . . Designed and Etched by Hablot K. Browne, and Published with the Sanction of Mr. Charles Dickens. London: Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand, 1848. 8 plates, with green wrapper. 159 Dombey and Daughter: A Moral Fiction. By Renton Nicholson, Lord Chief Baron of the celebrated Judge and Jury Society, held at the Gar- rick's Head Hotel, Bow Street. Solo Nobilitas Virtus. London : Published by Thomas Farris . . . [1848]. Quarto, issued in parts. Original green, printed, pictorial, paper wrapper bound in. An imitation of Dombey and Son. 160 Dombey and Son finished. (In: The Man in the Moon, No. 14. London, February, 1848, pp. 59-68.) 112 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Twentyfour-mo. Original buff, printed, pic- torial, paper wrapper. Woodcuts. A burlesque imitation. i6i De Firma Dombey en Zoon . . . naar het Engelsch van Charles Dickens, door Boudewijn . . . 'sGravenhage, Haarlem en Rotterdam . . . 1847 [-48]. Octavo. 3 vols, in i, bound in brown cloth. Plates (lithographs on India paper). A Dutch translation, also issued in monthly numbers, contemporaneously with the orig- inal English edition. The illustrations are copies by a Dutch artist of the "Phiz" etch- ings, and are reproduced by lithography, two on a plate. For songs founded upon Dombey and Son, see No. 278. THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST'S BARGAIN, 1848 Dickens's fifth and last Christmas book, their place being taken, to some "3 THE WORKS OF DICKENS extent, by the Christmas numbers of Household Words and All the Year Round. There are five illustrations by Leech, three by Stanfield, three by Frank Stone, Dickens's firm friend and Associate of the Royal Academy, and six by Sir John Tenniel, his only contribution towards the illustration of Dickens's works. The original manuscript has disap- peared. 162 The Haunted Man | And | The Ghost's Bargain. | A Fancy for Christmas Time. | By | Charles Dick- ens. I London : | Bradbury & Evans, II, Bouverie Street. | 1848. Sixteenmo. Original red cloth binding with gilt design on cover and back, gilt edges and yellow end-papers. First issue of the first edition, with broken figure "i" in pagination of p. 166. Collation: Advertisements, title (with im- print on verso), list of illustrations, and half- title, [4 unnumbered leaves] ; text, pp. [i]- 188. Frontispiece, engraved title, and 14 woodcuts by Tenniel, Stanfield, Stone and Leech. 114 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Slater, in his Early Editions, states that a few early copies had the date on the title- page in Roman numerals. The Haunted Man | And | The Ghost's Bargain. | A Fancy for Christmas-Time. | By | Charles Dick- ens. I New York: | Harper & Bro- thers, Publishers, 82 Cliff Street. | [n.d.] Octavo. Original brown, printed paper wrapper. Probably issued in 1848, as Harper & Bro- thers published some of the Christmas stories very shortly after their appearance in Eng- land. SUBURBAN ROMANCE, 1850 Dickens contributed this story of seventeen pages to The Josephine Gallery, a collection edited by Alice and Phoebe Cary in 1859. It does not seem to have been printed separately. 115 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 164 The I Josephine Gallery. | Edited By I Alice And Phoebe Gary. | New York: | Derby & Jackson, 119 Nas- sau Street. | MDCCCLIX. Octavo. Original red cloth binding, gold stamped, with green end-papers. Frontispiece and plates. Suburban Romance, pp. 89-107. HOUSEHOLD WORDS, 1850-1859 As early as 1846, Dickens had in mind the founding of a magazine, which should be something **between a sort of Spectator and a different sort of Athenaeum'', but no definite idea was settled upon until toward the end of 1849. On March 30, 1850, the first number of Household Words was published, with Dickens as editor, and W. H. Wills as assis- tant editor. It ran until May 28, 1859, Dickens's important contribu- tions being A Child's History of Eng- 116 THE WORKS OF DICKENS land (see our No. 178), The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (see our No. 232), The Uncommercial Traveller (see our No. 205), and Hard Times (see our No. 181). At Christmas, extra numbers were issued, Dickens making them a special fea- ture. These extra Christmas numbers contained about twice as much ma- terial as the regular weekly numbers, and, in a way, took the place of Dick- ens's yearly Christmas books, the last of which had been issued in 1848. Household Words was followed by a similar periodical. All the Year Round (see No. 189, etc.). From 1850 to 1855, Dickens pub- lished a supplement to Household Words, called The Household Nar- rative, which dealt with current events. 1 65 Original Manuscript of Out of Town, which appeared in Household Words on September 29, 1855. Octavo. 1 1 pp., written in blue ink. 117 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 1 66 Original Outline Draft of The Holly- Tree Inn, the Extra Christmas Num- ber of Household Words for 1855. 167 Original Outline Draft, addressed to the contributors of Household Words, of The Wreck of the Golden Mary, the Extra Christmas Number for 1856. 168 Original Manuscript of The Best Authority, published in Household Words on June 20, 1857. Octavo. 9 pp. 169 Extra Christmas Numbers of House- hold Words, 1 850-1 858. Octavo. 9 numbers, unbound. The following are the titles of the different numbers, with Dickens*s contributions desig- nated : 1850. The Christmas Number: The Christ- mas Tree is by Dickens. 1 85 1. Extra Number for Christmas: What Christmas is as we Grow Older is by Dick- ens. 1852. A Round of Stories by the Christmas 118 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Fire: The Poor Relation's Story and The Child's Story are by Dickens. 1853. Another Round of Stories: The Schoolboy's Story and Nobody's Story are by Dickens. 1854. The Seven Poor Travellers: Tht First Poor Traveller and The Road are by Dickens. 1855. The Holly-Tree Inn: The Guests, The Boots and The Bill are by Dickens; the remainder, by Wilkie Collins. 1856. The Wreck of the Golden Mary: Most of The Wreck, and the hymn on p. 21 are by Dickens; the remainder, by Wilkie Collins. 1857. The Perils of Certain English Prison- ers: Chapters I and III are by Dickens; the remainder, by Wilkie Collins. 1858. A House to Let: Going into Society is by Dickens. 170 ... I A I Round Of Stories | By | The Christmas Fire. | By | Charles Dickens. | New York: | Stringer & Townsend, 222 Broadway. | 1853. | Octavo. Original brown, printed, paper wrapper, with title as above. Probably the first American edition of the Christmas Story for 1852. 119 THE WORKS OF DICKENS DAVID COPPERFIELD, 1850 The first monthly number of this, the most popular (next to Pickwick) of Dickens's novels, the author's own favorite, and largely autobiographi- cal, appeared in May, 1849. Among the guests at a dinner given by Dick- ens in its honor, on May 12, were Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle, Mrs. Gaskell, Thackeray, Douglas Jerrold and Hablot K. Browne, the illustrator of the work. It was written at Broad- stairs, Brighton, and London, and was the last book that Dickens worked upon in the house at Devon- shire Terrace. The monthly numbers continued until November, 1850, when it appeared in book form, in green cloth. Most of the plates were etched twice, with slight variations. The original manuscript and cor- 120 THE WORKS OF DICKENS rected proofs are in the possession of the South Kensington Museum. The Personal History | Of | David Copperfield. | By Charles Dickens. | With Illustrations By H. K. Browne. I London: | Bradbury & Evans, ii, Bouverie Street. | 1850. Octavo. In 20 monthly numbers, as issued (the last a double number), with original green, printed, pictorial, paper wrappers, de- signed by Browne, and advertisements. First edition. Collation: Half-title, title (with imprint on verso), dedication to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Watson, preface, and table of contents, pp. [i]-xiv; Errata, p. [xv] ; text, pp. [i]-624. 40 plates (including frontispiece and engraved title) by H. K. Browne. The preliminary pages were issued with the joint Nos. 19-20, in which were also 4 plates, the other numbers containing 2 plates each. It was issued later without the date on the title-page. Little Em'ly. ( ^^David Copperfield." ) A Drama, in four Acts. By Andrew Halliday As first performed at the Olympic Theatre, London . . . Oc- 121 THE WORKS OF DICKENS tober 9, 1869 . . . New York: De Witt, [n.d.] Duodecimo. Original cream-colored, printed, paper wrapper. For songs founded upon David Copperfield, see No. 278. MR. NIGHTINGALE'S DIARY, 1 85 1 This farce was the joint production of Dickens and Mark Lemon, and was first produced at Devonshire House on May 27, 1851, for the bene- fit of the Guild of Literature and Art, the cast including Dickens, Lemon, and Wilkie Collins. It was privately- printed for Dickens. At least two copies besides that exhibited are known to exist— one in the South Ken- sington Museum, and the other in an American private collection. In 1877, an edition was published by Osgood & Co., in Boston. 122 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 173 Mr. Nightingale's Diary: | A Farce. I In One Act. | By | (sic) | London: I1851. Duodecimo. Wilkie Collins's copy, with his signature and autograph annotations for his part, Lithers, the landlord. First edition. Collation: Title (with imprint on verso), and Dramatis Personae, [2 unnumbered leaves]; text, pp. [i]-26. 174 Mr. Nightingale's Diary: | A Farce I In One Act. | By Charles Dickens. | Boston: | James R. Osgood And Company, Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co. | 1877. Thirtytwo-mo. Original brown cloth cover and advertising end-papers bound in. With the original sketch, finished water-color draw- ing, tracing, and colored etching by F. W. Pailthorpe for a frontispiece inserted. First American edition. 175 Play Bill of Mr. Nightingale's Diary [Dickens in the cast]. The Lyceum, Sunderland, August 28, 1852: The Amateur Company of the Guild of Literature and Art. 123 THE WORKS OF DICKENS TO BE READ AT DUSK, 1852 Dickens contributed this to The Keepsake, 1852, edited by Miss Mar- guerite Power. It was printed sep- arately with the same date. Dickens had already been a contributor to this fashionable Annual in 1844 when he had written for it the verses entitled A Word in Season. 176 The I Keepsake | 1852. | Edited By \ Miss Power. | [Five lines] | London: I David Bogue, 86 Fleet Street: | Bangs, Brothers, And Co., New York; H. Mandeville, Paris. | 1852. Octavo. Frontispiece and plates. To be Read at Dusk, pp. 117-131. 177 To Be Read | At | Dusk. | By | Charles Dickens. | London: | 1852. Octavo. 124 THE WORKS OF DICKENS First separate edition. Collation: Title (with imprint on verso), and text: pp. [i]-i9 (with imprint on verso). A CHILD^S HISTORY OF ENGLAND, 1 852-1 854 This first appeared in Household Words, from January 25th, 1851, to December loth, 1853, in forty-five chapters. When published in book form, it was redivided into thirty- seven chapters. The three volumes are dated 1852, 1853, and 1854 re- spectively, and the dedication to his children is dated ''Christmas, 1851''. Dickens began the History for his son, dictating it to Miss Georgina Hogarth, as he was very busy over Bleak House at the time. The frontispieces of all three vol- umes contain the same border but have different pictures in the center. They are the work of Francis W. 125 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Topham, who began his career as a writing-engraver, but afterwards be- came a painter and illustrator. He was one of Dickens's famous com- pany of amateur actors. The original manuscript, by Miss Hogarth, with Chapters II and VI in the handwriting of Dickens, is in the possession of the South Kensington Museum. 178 A I Child's History Of England. | By I Charles Dickens. | With a Fron- tispiece by F. W. Topham. | Volume I. I England From The Ancient Times, To The Death Of | King John. I [Volume II. England From The Reign of Henry The Third, To The Reign of Richard The Third. Volume III. England From The Reign Of Henry The Seventh To The Revolution Of 1688.] | London: I Bradbury & Evans, 11, Bouverie Street. | i852[-i854.] Square sixteenmo. Three volumes, in orig- inal red cloth binding, with gilt design on 126 THE WORKS OF DICKENS cover and back and marbled edges and end- papers. First edition. Collation: Vol. I: Half title, title (with im- print on verso), dedication "To My Own Dear Children", table, and chronological table, pp. [i]-xi; text, pp. [i]-2io; advertisement, p. [211]. Frontispiece by F. W. Topham. Vol. II: Half-title, title (with imprint on verso), table, and chronological table, pp. [i]- viii; text, pp. [i]-2i4; advertisement, p. [215]. Frontispiece by Topham. Vol. Ill: Half-title, title (with imprint on verso), table, and chronological table, pp. [i]- viii; text, pp. [i]-32i; advertisement, p. [322]. Frontispiece by Topham. CHRISTMAS BOOKS (FIRST COLLECTED EDITION), 1852 The First Cheap Issue of the Works of Charles Dickens, printed in double columns, and issued in weekly three- halfpenny numbers, appeared in three series from 1847 ^^ 1867. Each vol- ume, as it was completed, was pub- lished with a new preface and a fron- 127 THE WORKS OF DICKENS tispiece. The last volume of the first series was comprised of the Christ- mas Books, 1852, and is the first col- lected appearance of these stories (see Nos. 117, 131, 135, 149, and 162). The preface is dated Septem- ber, 1852. 179 Christmas Books. | By | Charles Dickens. | London: | Chapman And Hall, 193, Piccadilly. | 1852. Duodecimo. Original light green cloth bind- ing, with yellow printed end-papers. Auto- graph letter from Dickens to Messrs. Chap- man and Hall inserted. First collected edition. Collation: Title (with imprint on verso), preface (with contents on verso), [two un- numbered leaves] ; text (including half-titles), pp. [i]-266; advertisement, p. [267]. Fron- tispiece by John Leech. BLEAK HOUSE, 1853 This protest against the abuses of Chancery practice was written for the 128 THE WORKS OF DICKENS most part at Tavistock House, the new London home into which the Dickens family moved toward the end of 1 8 5 1 . It appeared in monthly numbers from March, 1852, to Sep- tember, 1853, and was issued in one volume, in green cloth, in Septem- ber, 1853. Harper and Brothers paid Dickens £400 for advance sheets of the English edition and issued the novel in Harper's Magazine from April, 1852, to October, 1853, also publishing an edition in twenty monthly numbers. Shortly after its completion, on December 27, 29 and 30, 1853, Dick- ens gave his first public readings, at Birmingham in aid of the Midland Institute. The works selected for reading were A Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth, which were received with great enthusiasm. The original manuscript and cor- rected proofs of Bleak House are in the possession of the South Kensing- ton Museum. 129 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 1 80 Bleak House. | By | Charles Dickens. I With Illustrations By H. K. Browne. | London: | Bradbury And Evans, 11, Bouverie Street. | 1853. Octavo. In 20 monthly numbers, as issued (the last a double number), with original green, printed, pictorial, paper wrappers, de- signed by Browne, and advertisements. First edition. Collation: Half-title, title (with imprint on verso), dedication "To My Companions in the Guild of Literature and Art", preface, table of contents, and list of plates (with errata at end), pp. [i]-xvi; text, pp. [i]- 624. 40 plates (including frontispiece and engraved title) by H. K. Browne. The preliminary leaves were issued with the joint Nos. 19-20, in which are 4 plates. Each of the other numbers contains 2 plates, ex- cepting Nos. 9 and 10 which contain i and 3 respectively. A printed notice in No. 9 ex- plains the reason for this. HARD TIMES, 1854 This story, for which Dickens had great difficulty in choosing a title, ap- peared in Household Words, from 130 THE WORKS OF DICKENS April I to August 12, 1854, almost doubling the circulation of that maga- zine. The original manuscript and cor- rected proofs are in the possession of the South Kensington Museum. 181 Hard Times. | For These Times. | By Charles Dickens. | London: | Bradbury & Evans, 11, Bouverie Street. | 1854. I Octavo. Original light green cloth binding, with yellow end-papers. First edition. Collation: Half-title (with **[The Author reserves the right of Translation.]" on verso), title (with imprint on verso), dedi- cation to Thomas Carlyle, and table of con- tents, pp. [i]-viii; text in three books, each with half-title, pp. [i]-352. 182 Hard Times. | A Novel. | By Charles Dickens, | [Two lines] | New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers | [Two lines] | MDCCCLIV. Octavo. Original brown, printed, paper wrapper. Probably the first American edition. 131 THE WORKS OF DICKENS LITTLE DORRIT, 1857 Most of Little Dorrit was written in London, Paris and Boulogne, but it was finished in the house at Gad's Hill, near Rochester, the possession of which had been a dream of Dick- ens's childhood. Although the house was purchased early in 1856, he did not make it his permanent home until i860. Little Dorrit appeared in monthly numbers from December, 1855, to June, 1857, when it was pub- lished in one volume, in green cloth. Forster says that, in its composition, the author seemed, for the first time, to feel a strain upon his powers of in- vention. Clarkson Stanfield, the ma- rine and landscape painter, to whom the book is dedicated, superintended and painted scenes for the annual pri- vate theatricals at Tavistock House, 132 THE WORKS OF DICKENS in which Dickens was especially inter- ested during the writing of Little Dorrit. The title first chosen for the book was Nobody's Fault, which was retained until just before the publica- tion of the first number. Little Dor- rit appeared in Harper's Magazine from January, 1856, to July, 1857, the publishers paying £250 for the advance sheets. The original manuscript and cor- rected proofs are in the possession of the South Kensington Museum. Little Dorrit. | By | Charles Dickens. I With Illustrations ByH. K. Browne. I London: | Bradbury And Evans, II, Bouverie Street. | 1857. Octavo. In 20 monthly numbers, as issued (the last a double number), with original green, printed, pictorial, paper wrappers, de- signed by Browne, and advertisements. First edition. Collation: Title (with imprint on verso), dedication to Clarkson Stanfield, preface, table of contents, and list of plates (with Errata at end), pp. [i]-xiv; text, pp. [i]- 133 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 625. 40 plates (Including frontispiece and en- graved title) by H. K. Browne. The preliminary matter was issued with the joint Nos. 19-20, in which are 4 plates, the remaining numbers containing 2 plates each. No. 16 contains a slip correcting the use in No. 15 of "Rigaud" for "Blandois". For song founded upon Little Dorrit, see No. 278. DICKENS AND THE ROYAL LITERARY FUND, 1858 Dickens was a member of the Com- mittee of the Royal Literary Fund (for benefiting needy writers), but he, as well as Forster and Dilke, re- signed in protest against the method of distributing the funds, the three men issuing a small pamphlet stating their case. The Committee in reply published a Summary of Facts, to which the reformers replied with an Answer to the Committee's Summary of Facts. 134 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 184 The Case | Of | The Reformers | In I The Literary Fund; | Stated By | Charles W. Dllke, Charles Dickens, And John Forster. [1858]. Octavo. Stitched. First edition. Collation: Title, and text, pp. [i]-i6. 184a. Royal Literary Fund. | A Summary Of Facts, I [Five lines] | Together With I A Report of the Proceedings of the last Annual Meeting, | March 12, 1858 I . . . Octavo. Stitched. The committee's answer, containing a report of Dickens's speech, in which he stated that he had written the preceding, "in conjunction with two friends." 185 Royal Literary Fund. | The Answer I To I The Committee's Summary of "Facts." I By I C. W. Dilke, Charles Dickens, And | John Forster. | Lon- don: I Bradbury And Evans, 11, Bou- verie Street. | 1858. Octavo. Stitched. First edition. Collation: Title, and text, pp. [i]-i6. 135 THE WORKS OF DICKENS ALL THE YEAR ROUND, 1859-1870 This successor to Household Words, 1850-59, was also edited by Dickens, whose most important works to ap- pear in it were A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations. Other con- tributors were Wilkie Collins, Charles Reade and Lord Lytton. The extra Christmas numbers continued to be issued for nine years. Like those of Household Words, they were without wrappers until 1863, when Mrs. Lir- riper's Lodgings appeared with a dark blue paper wrapper. Dickens's last contribution to All the Year Round was a notice of Forster's Life of Landor, in 1869. Upoi^ his death in 1870, his son succeeded to the edi- torship. 186 Rough Draft, in Dickens's handwrit- ing, of a communication to the con- 136 THE WORKS OF DICKENS tributors of All the Year Round, con- taining his plans for the Extra Christ- mas Number for 1862, Somebody's Luggage. 187 Original Manuscript of His Brown- Paper Parcel, which appeared as a part of Somebody's Luggage, the Ex- tra Christmas Number for 1862. Octavo. 1 1 pp. Written on blue paper. 188 Rough Draft, in Dickens's handwrit- ing, of a communication to the con- tributors of All the Year Round con- taining suggestions for the Extra Christmas Number for 1863, Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings. 189 Extra Christmas Numbers of ^^AU the Year Round", 1 859-1 867. Octavo. 9 numbers, unbound ; the last five in dark blue, printed, paper wrappers, as issued. The following are the titles of the different numbers, with Dickens's contributions desig- nated : 1859. The Haunted House: The Mortals in the House, The Ghost in Master B's Room, 137 THE WORKS OF DICKENS and The Ghost in the Corner Room are by Dickens. i860. A Message from the Sea: Chapters I, II, and V, and passages in other chapters are by Dickens. There is a woodcut in this number. 1861. Tom Tiddler's Ground: Chapters I, VI, and VII are by Dickens. 1862. Somebody's Luggage: His Leaving it till Called For, His Boots, His Brown-Paper Parcel, and His Wonderful End are by Dick- ens; also a portion of Chapter III. 1863. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings: Chapters I and VII are by Dickens. 1864. Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy: Chapters I and VII are by Dickens. 1865. Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions: Chapters I, VI and VIII are by Dickens. 1866. Mugby Junction: Barbox Brothers, Barbox Brothers and Co., Main Line (The Boy at Mugby), and No. i Branch Line (The Signal-Man) are by Dickens. 1867. No Thoroughfare: The joint produc- tion of Dickens and Wilkie Collins. 190 Charles Dickens's | New | Christmas Story. I Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings. [Seven lines] | New York: | Harper & Brothers, Publishers, | Franklin Square. | 1864. 138 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Octavo. Original white, printed, paper wrap- per. Probably the first American edition of the Christmas Story for 1863. Only Chapters I and VII are by Dickens. An edition was published at Mobile, Alabama, the same year. 191 L'Embranchement de Mugby. Par Charles Dickens. Precede de son histoire, d'apres John Forster, tra- duite par Th. Bentzon. Petite Bib- liotheque blanche ... J. Hetzel et Cie . . . Paris . . . [n.d.] Duodecimo. Original red cloth. Woodcuts. The Christmas story of 1866 arranged for children, with a sketch of Dickens's life. For songs founded upon Mugby Junction and Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, see No. 278. A TALE OF TWO CITIES, 1859 This, Dickens's second historical novel, was published originally in All The Year Round, from April 30th to 139 THE WORKS OF DICKENS November 26th, 1859, appearing concurrently in monthly numbers, and, when completed, in 1859, in one volume in green and in red cloth. It is the last work of Dickens which Hablot K. Browne illustrated, and is the first of his later works to be pub- lished by Chapman and Hall. Har- per & Brothers paid £1000 for ad- vance sheets, and published it in Har- per's Weekly, from May 7 to Decem- ber 3, 1859. The original manuscript is in the possession of the South Kensington Museum. 192 A I Tale Of Two Cities. | By | Charles Dickens. | With Illustrations By H. K. Browne. | London : | Chap- man And Hall, 193 Piccadilly; | And At The Office Of All The Year Round, I II, Wellington Street North. I MDCCCLIX. Octavo. In 8 monthly numbers, as issued (the last a double number), with original, green, printed, pictorial, paper wrappers, and advertisements. 140 THE WORKS OF DICKENS First issue of the first edition, with pagination on p. 213 misprinted "113". Collation: Title, dedication to Lord John Russell, preface, table of contents, and list of plates, pp. [i-ix] ; text, pp. [i]-254. ^6 plates (including frontispiece and engraved title) by H. K. Browne. The preliminary matter appeared in the joint Nos. 7-8, in which are 4 plates, the remain- ing numbers containing 2 plates each. A CURIOUS DANCE ROUND A CURIOUS TREE, r. i860 This description of the usual Christ- mas dance, given for the patients of St. Luke's Hospital for the Insane, first appeared in Household Words, January 17, 1852. It was published separately in i860 by the General Committee of St. Luke's Hospital, and distributed to patrons of the Hos- pital. The entire pamphlet has some- times been attributed to W. H. Wills, who certainly wrote portions of it, but the original manuscript contains 141 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 217, out of the 393 printed lines, in the handwriting of Dickens. It is also designated by Wills, in Old Leaves, as one of the papers in that collection partially written by Dick- ens. 193 A Curious Dance | Round A Curious Tree. | By | Charles Dickens, [i860]. Duodecimo. Original, mauve, printed, paper wrapper. First issue of the first edition, with period after "Tree" on cover, and before the last paragraph on p. 19 was printed in thick type. Collation: Cover title; text, pp. [i]-i9. 194 A Curious Dance | Round A Curious Tree, | By | Charles Dickens, [i860]. Second issue of the first edition, with different border around the title, comma after "tree'^ in title, and variation in type on p. 19. The wrapper is pink. With this is the mailing wrapper in which it was inclosed, and an accompanying stamped and addressed envelope for posting contribu- tions to the hospital. 142 THE WORKS OF DICKENS DROOPING BUDS, i860 With the exception of the paragraph on pp. 6-7, beginning **0! Baby's dead'\ this is by Henry Morley, who at Dickens's request visited the newly founded Children's Hospital in Great Ormond Street and contributed the article describing his visit to House- hold Words, April 3, 1852. Mr. Morley himself stated in The Athe- naeum, December 14, 1889, that Dickens added so much to the value of the article by inserting the para- graph referred to that he (Morley) omitted it from a collection of his own papers. Drooping Buds was issued separately as a small pamphlet by the Hospital in 1 860. In a reprint of 1866 it seems to have been attrib- uted to Dickens. (See Pseudo-Dick- ens Rarities, by F. G. Kitton, in The Athenaeum, September 11, 1897.) 143 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 195 Hospital I For | Sick Children. | 49, Great Ormond Street. | Patron— Her Majesty The Queen. | '^Droop- ing Buds;" | From Dickens' House- hold Words. I (April, 1852.) | The Objects of the Institution are— | [Four lines] | London: | Printed By R. Folkard, Devonshire Street, | Queen Square. | i860. Twentyfour-mo. Original pink paper wrap- per. First edition. Collation: Title (with list of officers, etc., on verso), and text, pp. [i]-ii (with sum- mary, etc., on verso). OLD LEAVES, i860 William Henry Wills was assis- tant editor, both of Household Words and All the Year Round, and an intimate friend of Dickens, to whom he dedicated this compilation of thirty-seven papers from Household Words, as follows: 'To the Other 144 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Hand, whose masterly touches gave to the Old Leaves here freshly gath- ered, their brightest tints, they are affectionately inscribed''. Portions of fifteen of the papers, designated by the sign of a hand placed beside their numbers, are by Dickens. They are as follows : Valentine's Day at the Post- Office, The Heart of Mid-London, A popular Delusion, The Old Lady in Threadneedle-Street, Bank-note For- geries, Plate Glass, Spitalfields, The Metropolitan Protectives, Epsom, My Uncle, A curious Dance round a curious Tree, Post-Office Money Orders, A plated Article, Received, a blank Child, Idiots. Old Leaves : | Gathered From House- hold Words. I By W. Henry Wills. | London: | Chapman And Hall, 193, Piccadilly. I MDCCCLX. Duodecimo. Original cream-colored binding, with white end-papers. First collected edition. Collation : Title, dedication to Dickens, and 145 THE WORKS OF DICKENS table of contents, pp. [i]-vi; text, pp. [i]-437 (with imprint on verso). 197 Another Copy, with autograph inser- tions by Richard Heme Shepherd. HUNTED DOWN, c 1861 This short story, which had its origin in the career of Wainewright, the no- torious poisoner, w^as first published in the New York Ledger in three numbers, August 20, 27, and Septem- ber 3, 1859. It was illustrated by seven woodcuts. The following year, it was published in All the Year Round, on April 4 and 11. John Camden Hotten reprinted it in his Piccadilly Annual for 1870, also issu- ing it in pamphlet form. The recent discovery of an American collection, with copyright date 1861, including Hunted Down, makes its first appear- ance in book form an American one. 146 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 198 Original Manuscript of ^^Hunted Down'\ Quarto. 15 pp., written in blue ink, with a letter from Robert Bonner, of the New York Ledger, stating that the manuscript, for which the Ledger paid $5000, was presented to the Metropolitan Sanitary Fair. 199 The New York Ledger for August 20, August 27, and September 3, 1859, in which Hunted Down first appeared. 200 All the Year Round for August 4 and II, i860, containing Hunted Down, its first appearance in England. 201 The I Lamplighter's Story; | Hunted Down; The Detective Police; | And Other Nouvellettes. | By | Charles Dickens. | [Four lines.] Philadel- phia : I T. B. Peterson And Brothers, I 306 Chestnut Street. | [c. 1861.] Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with yellow end-papers. First edition of Hunted Down in book form. Collation : One blank leaf, woodcut frontis- piece, title-page with woodcut, plain title 147 THE WORKS OF DICKENS (with copyright notice on verso), pp. [3]- [10] ; text, pp. 11-467. The Lamplighter's Story had appeared in Pic Nic Papers, 1841. A foot note on the first page of Hunted Down is as follows: "This is the first and only story that Mr. Dickens has ever written for an American publication. It was originally pub- lished in the New York Ledger, and we have Mr. Bonner's permission (who owns the copyright) to copy it from that periodical". 202 The I Piccadilly Annual | Of | Enter- taining Literature | Retrospective And Contemporary. | . . . London : I John Camden Hotten, 74 & 75, Pic- cadilly. [1870.] Quarto. Woodcuts. Hunted Down, pp. [i]-i3. 203 Hunted Down: | A Story. | By | Charles Dickens. | With Some Ac- count Of I Thomas Griffiths Waine- wright, I The Poisoner. | [Vignette of *The Fatal House"] | London: | John Camden Hotten, | 74 & 75, Pic- cadilly. [1870.] Sixteenmo. Original green, printed, pictorial, stiff paper wrapper, with advertisements. 148 THE WORKS OF DICKENS First English edition. Collation: Advertisement, half-title, title, introduction, pp. [i]-28. Half-title ("Hunted Down. By Charles Dickens") and text, pp. 29-89 (with imprint on verso) ; 8 unnum- bered leaves of advertisement. The words "Price Sixpence" precede the title on the wrapper. A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA, 1861 This was dramatized from the story of the same name which appeared as the Christmas Story for i860, the joint work of Dickens and Wilkie Collins. A I Message From The Sea. | A Drama, in Three Acts. | By | Charles Dickens | And | Wilkie Collins. | London: | Published By G. Hols- worth, I At The Office Of ^^AU The Year Round." | Wellington Street, Strand. | 1861. | [Entered at Station- ers' Hall.] 149 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Duodecimo. Original buff, printed, paper wrapper, with title as above. First edition. Collation : Persons of the Drama, and Out- line of the Plot, pp. [i]-8. A synopsis of the play, apparently published hurriedly for purposes of registration and copyright. THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER, 1861 This work is composed of seventeen papers which first appeared in All the Year Round, from January 28 to Oc- tober 13, i860. Many of them relate Dickens's adventures on the midnight tramps through London to which he was driven by insomnia. 205 The I Uncommercial Traveller | By | Charles Dickens. | London: | Chap- man And Hall, 193, Piccadilly. | MDCCCLXL Octavo. Original lilac cloth, with yellow end-papers. 150 THE WORKS OF DICKENS First edition. Collation: Half-title, title, preface, and table of contents, [four unnumbered leaves] ; text, pp. [ 1 1-264; "A catalogue of books, published by Chapman and Hall," pp. I--32. Some copies were bound in green cloth. GREAT EXPECTATIONS, 1861 This first appeared in All the Year Round from December i, i860, to August 3, 1 861. Dickens's first in- tention had been to make it a longer story, in the usual twenty monthly parts, but he finally resolved to cut it down to the length of A Tale of Two Cities. During its publication, Tavis- tock House was sold, and Dickens determined to make Gad's Hill Place his permanent home. Harper & Bro- thers paid £1250 for advance sheets and published the story in Harper's Weekly during 1861, afterwards issuing it in two volumes. 151 THE WORKS OF DICKENS A portion of the corrected galley proof of Great Expectations is in the possession of the South Kensington Museum. Dickens presented the original manuscript to the Rev. Chauncey Hare Townshend, at whose death it was deposited in the Museum at Wisbech, in Cambridgeshire. 206 Dickens's Scrap Book, used in pre- paring Great Expectations, in book form, for the press. The pages con- taining the story have been cut from All The Year Round, and pasted down, leaving marginal space for his alterations, of which there are many, in his autograph. Dickens's signa- ture is on the fly-leaf. 207 Great Expectations | By | Charles Dickens. | In Three Volumes. | Vol. I I [Vols. II & III] I London: | Chap- man And Hall, 193, Piccadilly. | MDCCCLXI. I [The Right of trans- lation is reserved.] 152 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Octavo. Three volumes, in original purple cloth binding, with yellow end-papers. First edition. Collation: Vol. I: Title, and dedication to Chauncey Hare Townshend, [2 unnumbered leaves] ; text, pp. [i]-344- Vol. II: Title, [i unnumbered leaf]; text, PP« [i]-35i (with imprint on verso). Vol. Ill: Title, [i unnumbered leaf]; text, PP' [i]~344>* Chapman and Hall's Cata- logue, dated May, 1861, 32 pp. 208 Extra Illustrations to Great Expecta- tions by Frederick W. Pallthorpe. Great Expectations By Charles Dick- ens London Robson & Kerslake . . . 1885. Half-title and 21 plates, in portfolio. One of 50 sets of proofs on Japanese paper, in black. Other proofs were issued in bistre, and there are plain and colored sets. For songs founded upon Great Expectations, see No. 278. 153 THE WORKS OF DICKENS OUR MUTUAL FRIEND, 1865 Our Mutual Friend was issued in monthly numbers from May, 1864, to November, 1865, ^he two volumes being published in book form, bound in cloth, in February and November, 1865. The woodcut illustrations were the work of Marcus Stone, the young son of Dickens's intimate friend Frank Stone, who made some of the illus- trations for The Haunted Man. Dickens had deeply lamented his friend's early death, and took much interest in the son, who afterwards became a Royal Academician. The illustrations were engraved by Dal- ziel Brothers and W. T. Green. The story was published from ad- vance proofs in Harper's Magazine, from June, 1864, to December, 1865. 154 THE WORKS OF DICKENS The original manuscript is in the possession of the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia. Our Mutual Friend. | By | Charles Dickens. | With Illustrations By Marcus Stone. | In Two Volumes. | Vol. I I [Vol. II] I London: | Chap- man and Hall, 193 Piccadilly, | 1865. I [The right of Translation is reserved.] Octavo. In 20 monthly numbers, arranged for 3 volumes, as issued (the last a double number), with original, green, printed, pic- torial, paper wrappers, designed by Marcus Stone, and advertisements. First edition. Collation: Vol. I: Half-title, title, (with imprint on verso), dedication to Sir James Emerson Tennent, table of contents, and list of illustrations, pp. [i]-xi; text, pp. [i]-320. A slip explaining the title precedes p. i. 10 plates by Marcus Stone. Vol. II: One unnumbered leaf of advertise- ment; half-title, title, (with imprint on verso), table of contents and list of illustra- tions, pp. [i]-viii; text, pp. [i]-309, in- cluding "Postscript in lieu of preface'*, dated "September 2nd, 1865"; "Mr. Charles Dick- 155 THE WORKS OF DICKENS ens's Works", p. [311]. 10 plates by Marcus Stone. The preliminary leaves for the two volumes were issued with No. 10 and joint Nos. 19- 20, in which are 4 plates, the other numbers containing two plates each. THE FROZEN DEEP, 1866 Dickens contributed twenty-two lines, at the beginning of Act III, to this play by Wilkie Collins, and made various suggestions and alterations. It was written in 1856 and performed at Tavistock House by Dickens and his friends on January 6, 1857. A few copies were privately printed in 1866. 210 The Frozen Deep. | A Drama, | In Three Acts. | By | Wilkie Collins. | [Not published.] 1866. Sixteenmo. Original buff paper wrapper and play bill of first performance bound in. 156 THE WORKS OF DICKENS First edition. Collation: Title (with imprint on verso), and ''Persons of the Drama", pp. [i]-[3] > text, pp. [51-46. LEGENDS AND LYRICS, 1866 In 1 86 1, the first collected edition of Adelaide Anne Procter's poems ap- peared. A very large number of them had first been published in Household Words and All the Year Round. Miss Procter died on February 2, 1864, and, in 1866, a new edition of her works was published, with an in- troduction by Dickens, who was a warm friend of the Procter family. 211 Legends And Lyrics. | By | Adelaide Anne Procter. | With An Introduc- tion By I Charles Dickens. | New Edition, With Additions. [Five lines] London: | Bell And Dalby, 186, Fleet Street. | 1866. 157 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Octavo. Frontispiece-portrait, plates. Orig- inal green cloth cover, gold-stamped, bound in. First edition of the Introduction (ii pages). NO THOROUGHFARE, 1867 This play is founded upon the story of that name which constituted the Christmas Number of All the Year Round, 1867. It was the work of Dickens and Wilkie Collins, who dramatized it on the eve of Dickens's departure for his second visit to America, in November, 1867. Fors- ter says that it is the only one of his stories that Dickens himself helped to dramatize, but some scenes differ so widely from the story as to be en- titled to rank almost as an original production. It was first performed on December 26, 1867, at the Adelphi Theater, during Dickens's absence, and met with great success. Dickens 158 THE WORKS OF DICKENS wrote to Fechter, who played one of the principal roles, **I never did so want to see a character played on the stage as I want to see you play Oben- reizer''. A privately printed edition of **No Thoroughfare" appeared in London in 1867, versions were published in New York by De Witt and French, and it was translated into French (L'Abime), and produced under Dickens's superintendence in Paris, 1868. 212 No Thoroughfare. | A Drama. | In Five Acts. | (Altered from the Christmas Story, for Performance on the Stage.) | By | Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. | London : | Pub- lished At The Office Of All The Year Round, I 26, Wellington Street. | 1867. I [Entered At Stationers' Hall.] Duodecimo. Original buff printed paper wrapper. First edition. 159 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Collation: Title (with imprint on verso), and "Persons of the Drama", pp. [i]-[3] ; text, pp. [5]-78; one unnumbered leaf with imprint on recto. 213 No Thoroughfare. | A Drama | In Five Acts And A Prologue. | By Charles Dickens And Wilkie Collins. I [Nine lines] | New York: | Robert M. De Witt, Publisher, | No. 33 Rose Street. | [1868]. [De Witt's Acting Plays, No. 14.] Duodecimo. Original yellow, printed, paper wrapper bound in. Richard Heme Shep- herd's copy, interleaved and annotated by him. 214 .. . Identity; or. No Thoroughfare. By Louis Lequel. Dramatized from the Christmas Story of Charles Dick- ens and Wilkie Collins . . . New York: Samuel French . . . [French's Standard Drama, No. 348.] Duodecimo. Original yellow, printed, paper wrapper. 160 THE WORKS OF DICKENS GEORGE SILVERMAN'S EXPLANATION, 1868 After Dickens's return from Amer- ica, he was persuaded by James T. Fields to write this little story for the Atlantic Monthly, receiving £1000 for the work, which was the labor of only a few days. It appeared in the numbers of the magazine for Janu- ary, February and March, 1868, and was reprinted in All the Year Round for February 1,15 and 29. 215 The Atlantic Monthly for January, February and March, 1868, in which George Silverman's Explanation first appeared, pp. 11 8-1 23, 145-149, and 277-283. 216 George Silverman's | Explanation. | By I Charles Dickens. | The Southern Publishing Company, Limited, | 130, 161 THE WORKS OF DICKENS North Street, Brighton, | And | i6o, Fleet Street, London. | [n.d.] Twentyfour-mo. Original pink, printed, pa- per wrapper. First edition. Collation: One blank leaf; title (with im- print on verso), and text, pp. [i]-53. On account of the uncertainty of the date of this issue (probably 1878), the work is en- tered under the date of its appearance in The Atlantic Monthly. A HOLIDAY ROMANCE, 1868 Although Dickens had agreed to write this child's story for Ticknor and Fields of Boston, as early as 1866, it did not appear until two years later, when it was published in Our Young Folks almost simultaneously with George Silverman's Explana- tion in The Atlantic Monthly. For it, also, Dickens received £1000. It ran through the numbers for Janu- 162 THE WORKS OF DICKENS ary, March, April and May, and was accompanied by a portrait of the au- thor, four illustrations by John Gil- bert, and ornamental initial letters by G. G. White and S. Eytinge. It was reprinted in All the Year Round the same year. 217 Original Manuscript of A Holiday Romance. Octavo. 30 pp., written in blue ink; with the original envelope, addressed to Ticknor and Fields, in which it was transmitted. 218 Our Young Folks for January, March, April and May, 1868, in which A Holiday Romance first appeared, pp. [i]-7, [i29]-i36, [i93]-20o, and [257J-263. TOWNSHEND'S RELIGIOUS OPINIONS, 1869 The Rev. Chauncey Hare Town- shend, who is described as a **tall, shy, 163 THE WORKS OF DICKENS man, with something of the Quixote in his face'' and a '^quiet worshipper'' of Dickens, died during Dickens's second visit to America, appointing him his literary executor. Dickens prepared for the press the manu- script notes of Townshend's Religious Opinions, ^Vhich he sincerely be- lieved would tend to the happiness of mankind", adding a preface. Town- shend devoted the bulk of his property to the education of poor children. A further proof of Dickens's attach- ment to Townshend is the fact that he presented to him the original manuscript of Great Expectations. 219 Religious Opinions | Of | The Late Reverend | Chauncy Hare Town- shend. I Published as directed in his Will, I By His Literary Executor. | London: | Chapman And Hall, 193, Piccadilly. I MDCCCLXIX. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, gold- stamped, with light brown end-papers. First edition. Dickens's own copy, with his 164 THE WORKS OF DICKENS book-plate and book-label. It belonged after- wards to Edmund Yates, and contains his book-plate. Collation: Title (with imprint on verso), and Explanatory Introduction, pp. [i]-v (verso blank) ; table of contents, p. [vii] (verso blank); text (including half-titles), PP' [i]~293 (with imprint on verso) ; one blank leaf. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, 1870 The work appeared in parts from April to September, 1870. Only three numbers had been published when the author died on June 9, 1 870, but three others which had been writ- ten appeared afterwards, and the completed portion was published in one volume. The last pages were written in the Swiss chalet on the grounds of Gad's Hill Place, on the day preceding Dickens's death. It had been his intention to complete it in twelve monthly numbers. 165 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Samuel Luke Flldes, later a mem- ber of the Royal Academy, was chosen to Illustrate this work on ac- count of Dickens's appreciation of an engraving by him called Homeless and Hungry, which appeared in the first number of The Graphic. The original manuscript and some corrected proofs are in the possession of the South Kensington Museum. In the fact that Dickens had made era- sures in the proof which were not re- garded by Forster in issuing the posthumous numbers. Sir Robertson NicoU feels that he has recently found new clues in solving the mystery of Dickens's intended ending of the story. 220 The Mystery ] Of | Edwin Drood. | By I Charles Dickens. | With Twelve Illustrations By S. L. Fildes, | And A Portrait. | London : | Chapman And Hall, 193, Piccadilly. 1870. | [The right of Translation is reserved.] Octavo. In six monthly numbers, as issued, 1.66 THE WORKS OF DICKENS with original, green, printed, pictorial, paper wrappers, designed by Charles Collins, Dick- ens's son-in-law. First edition. Collation: Title, (with imprint on verso), note upon Dickens's death, table of contents and list of illustrations, pp. [i-viii] ; text, PP' [i]-i90J advertisements, pp. [191--192]. Frontispiece-portrait engraved by J. H. Baker, and 12 plates (including engraved title) by S. L. Fildes. 221 The I Mystery Of Edwin Drood, | And I Some Uncollected Pieces. | By Charles Dickens. | With Illustrations. I Boston: | Fields, Osgood, & Co. | 1870. Octavo. Original buff, printed, paper wrap- per. Frontispiece and woodcuts. First collected edition. The "uncollected pieces" are Some Memoirs of Charles Dickens, by James T. Fields, George Silverman's Explanation, Holiday Romance, Sketches of Young Couples, New Uncommercial Samples, and The Will of Charles Dickens. The Mystery of Edwin Drood first appeared in America as a serial in a monthly Dickens Supplement to Harper's Weekly, from April 23 to October i, 1870. 167 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 222 John Jasper's Secret: being a Narra- tive of certain events following and explaining **The Mystery of Edwin Drood." With twenty illustrations. London: Publishing Offices . . . MDCCCLXXII. Octavo. Frontispiece, and woodcut illustra- tions. Issued in 8 monthly numbers. Orig- inal green, printed, pictorial, paper wrappers bound in. This is probably by an American, though the authorship has been wrongly attributed to Wilkie Collins. It appeared in The Chim- ney Corner, New York, 1871, and was pub- lished by Peterson and Brothers the same year. 223 The Mystery of Edwin Drood Com- plete. By Charles Dickens. Brattle- boro, Vt. : Published by T. P. James. 1874. Octavo. Original green, printed, paper wrap- per. This is one of the most remarkable of the unauthorized continuations of Edwin Drood. The second title-page reads: Part Second of the Mystery of Edwin Drood. By the Spirit- Pen of Charles Dickens, through a Medium. Embracing, also, that part of the work which 168 THE WORKS OF DICKENS was published prior to the termination of the Author's Earth-Life . . . 224 The Mystery of Mr. E. Drood. An Adaptation by Orpheus C. Kerr. London: John Camden Hotten . . . [n.d.] Sixteenmo. Original buff, printed, pictorial, paper wrapper, with advertisements. Fron- tispiece and title-vignette engraved on wood. Also published by Ward, Lock and Tyler. The author was also responsible for two other unauthorized continuations of Edwin Drood, one of them published by Hotten in the Piccadilly Annual, 1870, the other being The Cloven Foot, New York, 1870. A CHILD'S DREAM OF A STAR, 1 87 1 This reminiscence of the childhood dreams of Dickens and his sister Fanny, who died two years before the touching little story was written, first appeared in Household Words on April 6, 1850. It was published in 169 THE WORKS OF DICKENS book form by Fields, Osgood, & Co., in Boston in 1871. 225 A Child's Dream | Of | A Star. | By Charles Dickens. | With Illustrations By Hammatt Billings. | Boston: | Fields, Osgood, & Co. | 1871. Duodecimo. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt design on front cover, gilt edges, and brown end-papers. First edition. Collation: 15 leaves, printed on one side of the leaf only, with borders of red lines. 10 full-page illustrations by Hammatt Billings, engraved on wood by W. J. Linton, and woodcut initial and head- and tail-pieces. 226 Another Copy, bound in green cloth. 227 A Child's Dream of a Star. By Charles Dickens. London : Privately printed, 1899. Twentyfour-mo. Printed in brown, with original light blue glazed-paper wrapper, printed in blue and gold. 170 THE WORKS OF DICKENS CHARLES DICKENS ON FECHTER'S ACTING, 1872 Dickens contributed to the August number of the Atlantic Monthly, 1869, this enthusiastic tribute to the dramatic ability of his friend, Charles Fechter, whose part in the production of No Thoroughfare had helped so largely to make the play a success, in 1867. The article was entitled. On Mr. Fechter's Acting, and was writ- ten with the purpose of introducing the tragedian to the American public. It was Dickens's last casual piece of writing, and was reprinted at Leeds in 1872, together with press notices of Fechter's acting. 228 Charles Dickens | On | Fechter's Act- ing; I Followed By The | Critical No- tices I (Extracted from the London 171 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Journals) | On His | Hamlet, Othello, I Ruy Bias, Lady Of Lyons, | &c. | J. H. Clark, Steam Printer, Leeds, j [1872]. Duodecimo. Original green, printed, paper wrapper, with title as above. First edition. Collation: No title-page; text, pp. [i]-24. THE LAMPLIGHTER, 1879 Although written for Macready, and rehearsed for acting, the play is not known to have been really pre- sented upon the stage, nor was it printed during Dickens's lifetime. Dickens afterwards turned the farce into a humorous story for Pic Nic Papers (see No. 112). 229 The Lamplighter | A Farce | By | Charles Dickens. | (1838) | Now First Printed From A Manuscript In 172 THE WORKS OF DICKENS The I Forster Collection At The South I Kensington Museum | Lon- don I 1879 Duodecimo. Original blue-gray, printed pa- per wrapper, two original water-color sketches for frontispiece by F. W. Pailthorpe, and col- ored etching bound in. One of 250 copies printed. First edition. Collation: Half-title (with register of cop- ies on verso), title, and Dramatis Personae, pp. [1-5] ; text, pp. [7]-45. PLAYS AND POEMS, 1882 In 1882, Richard Heme Shepherd published a collection of Dickens's plays and poems, which was quickly suppressed as it contained copyright matter. It was afterwards issued without the copyright play. No Thoroughfare. The plays in the original issue numbered six, viz : The Strange Gentleman, The Village Co- 173 THE WORKS OF DICKENS quettes, Is she his Wife?, The Lamp- lighter, Mr. Nightingale's Diary, and No Thoroughfare. To the plays and poems were added Miscellanies in Prose, including Sunday under Three Heads, Threatening Letter to Thomas Hood, Preface to Evenings of a Working Man, To be read at Dusk, and On Mr. Fechter's Acting, as well as a Bibliography of Dickens. 230 The I Plays And Poems | Of | Charles Dickens | With A Few Mis- cellanies In Prose | Now First Col- lected I Edited Prefaced And Anno- tated I By I Richard Heme Shepherd I In Two Volumes | Vol. I. | [Vol. II.] I London | W. H. Allen & Co. 13 Waterloo Place, S. W. | Publishers To The India Office | 1882 | (All rights reserved) Octavo. Original blue cloth binding. First collected edition, containing No Thor- oughfare. Collation: Vol. I: Half-title, title (with imprint on verso), and table of contents, pp. 174 THE WORKS OF DICKENS [i]~[5] (verso blank) ; introduction and text, pp. [7]-4o6; imprint, p. 407. Vol. II: Half-title, title (with imprint on verso), and table of contents, pp. [i]-vi; Er- rata, p. [vii] (verso blank) ; text, pp. [i]- 420. 231 Another Copy, on large paper, with presentation inscription from the edi- tor to Osborn Walford, and the fol- lowing statement, signed ^Walford Bros.,'* inserted: **Dickens' Plays & Poems 2 vols L. P. This was sup- pressed immediately upon publication owing to copyright in No Thorough- fare & very few copies had got into the market, only those presented for review, and those secured by our firm in advance of publication. No large paper copies were sold in the ordinary way. We secured twelve copies in sheets from the printer, upon an order from the editor having a foreknowledge of the fact that the work would be suppressed. The pub- lishers had to pay a royalty upon all copies not given up." 175 THE WORKS OF DICKENS A border is added to the pages, and on the verso of the half-title is *'Only One Hundred and Fifty Copies Printed. No. -'* THE LAZY TOUR OF TWO IDLE APPRENTICES, 1890 These papers, the result of a jour- ney made by Dickens and Wilkie Col- lins, and the joint production of the two, were published in the October numbers of Household Words, 1857. Portions of the Lazy Tour were re- printed for the proprietor of the inn where the two writers stayed, under the title, Sly's, King's Arms Hotel, Lancaster (7 pp.), but it was issued in complete form for the first time in 1890, together with No Thorough- fare (the All the Year Round Christ- mas story of 1867), and The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (the 176 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Christmas story of Household Words, 1857), both of them joint productions of Dickens and Collins. 232 The Lazy Tour | Of Two Idle Ap- prentices. I No Thoroughfare. | The Perils Of Certain English | Prisoners. I By I Charles Dickens And Wilkie Collins. I With Illustrations. | Lon- don : Chapman And Hall, | Limited. I 1890. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with black end-papers. First collected edition. Collation: Half-title (with Note on verso), title (with imprint on verso), table of con- tents and list of illustrations, pp. [i-vii] ; text (including half-titles), pp. [i]-327. Wood- cut frontispiece and plates by Arthur Layard. OLD LAMPS FOR NEW ONES, c. 1897 This is a collection of fugitive pieces, — essays, reviews, and other papers,— 177 THE WORKS OF DICKENS contributed by Dickens, many of them anonymously, to The Examiner, The Daily News, Household Words, All the Year Round, etc. They are here brought together for the first time, and edited by Frederick G. Kitton. The letters to the Times on Capital Punishment, which led to the aboli- tion of public executions, had been published separately in 1849. The Explanatory Introduction of the Re- ligious Opinions of the late Reverend Chauncy Hare Townshend is in- cluded in the collection. 233 Old Lamps For | New Ones | And Other Sketches And Essays | Hitherto uncollected. | By Charles Dickens. | Edited, with an introduction, by | Frederick G. Kitton | [Three lines, publisher's mark] | New Amsterdam Book Company | 156 Fifth Avenue New York [c. 1897]. Octavo. First collected edition. Collation: Title (with imprint on verso), 178 THE WORKS OF DICKENS table of contents, and introduction, pp. [i]- xvi; text, pp. [5]-344; publisher's advertise- ments, ID pp. Frontispiece (facsimile). MRS. GAMP WITH THE STROLLING PLAYERS, 1899 In 1847, Dickens and his friends un- dertook to raise a fund for the benefit of Leigh Hunt by the publication of this humorous account of a **new Pil- jlan's ProjIss'\ but the artists who promised to furnish the Illustrations failed to do so, and the scheme was given up. The letterpress, as pre- pared by Dickens, was printed by Mr. Forster In his Life of Dickens. It was first published separately, from the manuscript In the possession of Mr. Lowell M. Palmer, In 1899. 234 Mrs. Gamp | with the Strolling Play- ers I An I Unfinished | Sketch | By | 179 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Charles Dickens | New York | Pri- vately Printed | MDCCCXCIX. Octavo. Original white paper boards, let- tered in gold. One of 85 copies printed at the Gilliss Press for Mr. Lowell M. Palmer, from the original manuscript. First separate edition. Collation : Three blank leaves ; one unnum- bered leaf (with "Printed for Mr. Lowell M. Palmer", etc., on recto) ; half-title, title (with ''eighty-five copies printed" on verso), and Note, pp. [i-x] ; half-title, and text, pp. [1-21]. Frontispiece-portrait, and two plates designed by F. W. Pailthorpe. READING EDITIONS, 1858, 1868 It has been said that the germ of Dickens's public readings lay in the meeting of his friends at John Fors- ter's house, in December, 1844, to hear the reading of The Chimes. His first public appearances as a reader were in December, 1853, when thou- sands of people listened with delight 180 THE WORKS OF DICKENS to the Christmas Carol and Cricket on the Hearth, which he read in the Town Hall, at Birmingham, for the benefit of the Midland Institute. These were followed by many such entertainments for charitable pur- poses, and on April 29, 1858, he gave his first paid public reading in St. Martin's Hall, London. The series thus begun continued through eigh- teen months, including readings in the principal cities of England, and in Scotland and Ireland. It was fol- lowed by three other series in Great Britain, in 1861-1863, 1866-1867, and 1 868-1 870, as well as by a course in America, during his second visit, from November, 1867, ^^ April, 1868. For these readings, special editions were arranged by him of his favorites among the Christmas Books, and se- lections from other works, and were published by Bradbury and Evans, 1858. On the occasion of his visit to America, in 1868, Ticknor and tSi THE WORKS OF DICKENS Fields, in Boston, issued his various readings in twelve or more small pamphlets, each bearing Dickens's en- dorsement on the verso of the title- page, and containing two readings. Several of them had not been pub- lished in the English reading editions. For Dickens's privately printed adaptations, see No. 246. 235 A Christmas Carol. | In Prose. | Be- ing I A Ghost Story of Christmas. | By I Charles Dickens. | London: | Bradbury & Evans, 11, Bouverie Street. | 1858. Sixteenmo. Original, green, printed, pic- torial, paper wrapper. 236 The Chimes: | A Goblin Story [ Of | Some Bells That Rang An Old Year Out I And A New Year In. | By | Charles Dickens. | London: | Brad- bury & Evans, 11, Bouverie Street. | 1858. Sixteenmo. Original, green, printed, pic- torial, paper wrapper. 182 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 237 The I Cricket On The Hearth. | A | Fairy Tale of Home. | By | Charles Dickens. | London: | Bradbury & Evans, 11, Bouverie Street. | 1858. Sixteenmo. Original, green, printed, pic- torial, paper wrapper. 238 The Poor Traveller: | Boots At The Holly-Tree Inn : | And | Mrs. Gamp. I By I Charles Dickens. | London: | Bradbury & Evans, 11, Bouverie Street. | 1858. Sixteenmo. Original, green, printed, paper wrapper. With letter from Dickens to a child ("My dear Lily") inserted; the letter ends: "So God bless you, and me, and Uncle Harry, and the Boots, And Long Life and Happiness to us all!" 239 The Story | Of | Little Dombey. | By I Charles Dickens. | London : | Brad- bury & Evans, 11, Bouverie Street. | 1858. Sixteenmo. Original, green, printed, pic- torial, paper wrapper. 240 The Readings | Of | Mr. Charles Dickens, | As Condensed By Himself. I A Christmas Carol | And | The 183 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Trial From Pickwick. | Illustrated Copyright Edition. | Boston And New York: | Ticknor And Fields. | 1868. I Price, 25 Cents. Sixteenmo. Original blue, printed, paper wrapper, with general title, as above. 2 illustrations by Sol. Eytinge. Each selection has separate title-page and pagination. 241 The Readings | Of | Mr. Charles Dickens, | As Condensed By Himself. I David Copperfield | And | Mr. Bob Sawyer's Party | (From Pickwick). | Illustrated Copyright Edition. | Bos- ton And New York: | Ticknor And Fields: | 1868. | Price, 25 Cents. Sixteenmo. Original blue, printed, paper wrapper, with general title, as above. 2 illustrations by Sol. Eytinge. Each selection has separate title-page and pagination. 242 The Readings | Of | Mr. Charles Dickens, | As Condensed By Himself. I Nicholas Nickleby | (At Mr. Squeers's School) | And | Boots At 184 THE WORKS OF DICKENS The Holly-Tree Inn. | Illustrated Copyright Edition. | Boston And New York: | Ticknor And Fields. | 1868. I Price, 25 Cents. Sixteenmo. Original blue, printed, paper wrapper, with general title, as above. 2 illustrations by Sol. Eytinge. Each selection has separate title-page and pagination. 243 The Readings | Of | Mr. Charles Dickens, | As Condensed By Himself. I The Story Of Little Dombey | And I The Trial From Pickwick. | Illus- trated Copyright Edition. | Boston And New York: | Ticknor And Fields. I 1868. I Price, 25 Cents. Sixteenmo. Original blue, printed, paper wrapper, with general title, as above. 2 illustrations by Sol. Eytinge. Each selection has separate title-page and pagination. 244 The Readings | Of | Mr. Charles Dickens, | As Condensed By Himself. I Nicholas Nickleby | (At Mr. Squeers's School) | And | The Trial 185 THE WORKS OF DICKENS From Pickwick. | Illustrated Copy- right Edition. | Boston And New York: | Ticknor And Fields: | 1868. I Price, 25 Cents. Sixteenmo. Original blue, printed, paper wrapper, with general title, as above. 2 illustrations by Sol. Eytinge. Each selection has separate title-page and pagination. 245 The Readings | Of | Mr. Charles , Dickens, | As Condensed By Himself. I Doctor Marigold | And | The Trial From Pickwick. | Illustrated Copy- right Edition. | Boston And New York: | Ticknor And Fields. | 1868. I Price, 25 Cents. Sixteenmo. Original blue, printed, paper wrapper, with general title, as above. 2 illustrations by Sol. Eytinge. Each selection has separate title-page and pagination. 246 Dickens's own Copies of his adapta- tions of his works for public readings, with numerous manuscript additions, i86 THE WORKS OF DICKENS erasures and notes for expression and gestures. Nine volumes printed especially for Dickens's use in his readings, and two volumes with text of ordinary editions inlaid and altered. With Dickens's book-plate and label. Charles Kent, in his work on Dickens as a Reader, thus refers to these volumes, several of which were privately printed, others differ- ing from the ordinary, published reading edi- tions in the points described below : "Reprinted in their new shape, each as *A Reading,' they were then touched and retouched by their author, pen in hand, until, at the end of a long succession of revisions, the pages came to be cobwebbed over with a wonderfully in- tricate network of blots and lines in the way of correction or of obliteration. Several of the leaves in this way, what with the black letter-press on the white paper, being scored out or interwoven with a tracery in red ink and blue ink alternately, present to view a curiously parti-coloured or tesselated appear- ance." a. Nicholas Nickleby | At The York- shire School. I A Reading. | In Four Chapters. | Privately Printed. Octavo. All the pages except one have era- sures or additions in ink, nearly all of which were incorporated in the American reading edition, 1868. 187 THE WORKS OF DICKENS This and the following five numbers were printed in London by William Clowes and Sons. b. David Copperfield. | A Reading. | In Five Chapters. | Privately Printed. Octavo. All the pages except five have erasures or additions in ink, nearly all of which were incorporated in the American reading edition, 1868, c. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings. | A Reading. | Privately Printed. Octavo. The first chapter only. No altera- tions in ink. d. Barbox Brothers. | The Boy At Mugby. I The Signalman. | Three Readings. | Privately Printed. Octavo. Ninety-four pages have alterations in ink. e. The | Bastille Prisoner. | A Read- ing. I From ^*A Tale Of Two Cities.'' I In Three Chapters. | Pri- vately Printed. Octavo. Thirty-five pages have erasures and notes for gestures; a few manuscript altera- tions in text. f. The Chimes: | A Reading. | In Three Parts. | By Charles Dickens. | (Not Published.) 188 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Octavo. All the pages except three have alterations in ink. Included in the pagination, but with a separate title-page, is: Sikes and Nancy: | A Reading | From | Oliver Twist. | By Charles Dickens. Three pages in manu- script are added to the latter. This is not the same edition as No. 236, dif- fering in type and text. g. The Poor Traveller: | Boots At The Holly-Tree Inn: | And | Mrs. Gamp. I By Charles Dickens. | Lon- don: I 1858. [Bradbury & Evans's imprint on verso of title-page.] Octavo. Every page has alterations in ink, and there are four additional pages of manu- script and pasted additions from other edi- tions. This is not the same edition as No. 238, the text and the make-up of the pages in several places (as well as the title-page) differing slightly from it. h. [The Story of Little Dombey.] Octavo. Every page has alterations in ink, several pages being completely obliterated by red ink, and others pasted together. The manuscript additions amount to about three pages. This is the same edition as No. 239, printed on larger paper. i. The Readings | Of | Charles Dick- 189 THE WORKS OF DICKENS ens I As Arranged And Read By Himself | Dr. Marigold. | [n.d.]. Quarto. With annotation. j. A Christmas Carol . . . Twelfth edition. London, 1849. The leaves are inlaid, with alterations throughout, in ink. k. The Cricket on the Hearth . . . Seventh edition. London, 1846. The leaves are inlaid, with alterations throughout, in ink. 190 SPEECHES In describing a dinner at which Dickens was present, Forster wrote: **Dickens spoke with that wonderful instinct of knowing what to abstain from saying as well as what to say which made his after-dinner speeches unique.'' A glance at the titles of his numerous speeches shows the variety of his sympathies and interests. 247 Report Of The Dinner Given To Charles Dickens, In Boston, Febru- ary I, 1842 . . . Boston: William Crosby And Company 1842. Sixteenmo. Original buff wrapper. Copy of Josiah M. Field, who was present at the din- ner, and sang an original song. Dickens's Speech, pp. 10-15. 248 Quozziana ... By Sampson Short- and-Fat . . . Boston: William White . . . 1842. Sixteenmo. Original green wrapper. A par- ody of No. 247. 191 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 249 Address Written For The Occasion Of The Amateur Performance at Manchester, On Monday, July 26, 1847, For The Benefit Of Mr. Leigh Hunt. By Mr. Serjeant Talfourd. Spoken By Mr. Charles Dickens. Octavo. Original buff wrapper. 250 Proceedings At The Second [Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth (misprinted Ninth), Tenth, and Twenty-first] An- niversary Festival [s] Of The Gen- eral Theatrical Fund, Held At The London Tavern . . . London : [vari- ous imprints] 1847, [1849, 1850, 1852, 1853, 1855, 1866.] Duodecimo. Original buff wrappers, and limp red cloth. Each pamphlet contains the report of a speech by Dickens. 251 The Newsvendors' Benevolent & Provident Institution. Speeches [ 1 849-1 870] In Behalf Of The Institution, By The Late Mr. Charles Dickens, President. London : Printed By Buck & Wootton . . . Duodecimo. Stitched. 192 SPEECHES 252 Address ... On The Occasion Of The Annual Festival . . . May I 9th, 1865. Octavo. A folder, with title and 2 pp. of text. 253 The Public Health A Public Ques- tion. First Report Of The Metro- politan Sanitary Association . . . Pro- ceedings Of The Public Meeting Held at Freemasons' Hall, Feb. 6th, 1850 .. . Published by the Associ- ation . . . 1850. Octavo. Stitched. Dickens's Speech, pp. 24- 26. 254 Original Manuscript of Speech de- livered at Gore House, May loth, 1851. 255 Speech Of Charles Dickens Delivered At Gore House, Kensington, May 10, 1 85 1. Printed From The Orig- inal Autograph Manuscript . . . The Bibliophile Society, Boston, MDCD- IX Octavo. Original blue wrapper. 193 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 256 Speech Of Charles Dickens, Esq., De- livered At The Meeting Of The Ad- ministrative Reform Association, At The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Wednesday, June 27, 1855. London: Effingham Wilson . . . 1855. Price Twopence. Octavo. Stitched, with imprint of M. S. Rickerby at end. 257 Another Issue, with title-page read- ing: ''. . . At Drury Lane Theatre, on Wednesday, June 27, 1855. Lon- don: M. S. Rickerby, Printer, 73, Cannon Street, City. 1855.'' Rick- erby's imprint appears also at the end. 258 Speech Of Charles Dickens, Esq. On Behalf Of The Hospital for Sick Children . . . [February 9th, 1858]. London: Printed By Folkard & Sons . . . 1874. Twentyfour-mo. Original yellow wrapper. 259 Royal Dramatic College, For Aged and Infirm Actors and Actresses . . . 194 SPEECHES London : Printed By William Clowes &Sons . . . 1858. Duodecimo. Original yellow wrapper. Con- tains report of meeting, July 21, 1858, with Dickens's Speech, pp. 12-14. 260 Speech Of Charles Dickens As Chair- man of the Anniversary Festival Din- ner Of The Royal Free Hospital, Held at the Freemasons' Tavern, on the 6th of May, 1863. London: Wyman & Sons . . . [1870]. Duodecimo. Stitched. Accompanied by the corrected galley proof of the speech from The Mirror, with autograph letter from Dickens complimenting the reporter. 261 The Charles Dickens Dinner. An Authentic Record Of The Public Ban- quet Given To Mr. Charles Dickens, At The Freemasons Hall, London, . . . November 2, 1867, Prior To His Departure For The United States. London : Chapman And Hall . . . 1867. Octavo. Stitched. 262 Address Delivered At The Birming- ham and Midland Institute, On The 195 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 27th September, 1869. By Charles Dickens, Esquire, President. Octavo. Original green wrapper. 263 Speeches Literary And Social By Charles Dickens. Now First Col- lected. With Chapters on ''Charles Dickens As A Letter Writer, Poet, And Public Reader." London John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly [1870]. Duodecimo. Frontispiece-portrait. Original green cloth cover bound in. First collected edition. 196 MISCELLANEOUS DICKENSIANA 264 The Late Mr. Justice Talfourd. Octavo. A black-edged folder, with printed notice of Justice Talfourd's death on the first page, together with the following in Dickens's handwriting: "Household Words 25th March 1854. Not yet published." On the third page is an autograph letter from Dickens to Toole, dated March 17, 1854, ^^- scribing the circumstances of Talfourd's death, which occurred on March 13, and say- ing: "The little remembrance on the other side is, of course, mine." Accompanied by Household Words, March 25, 1854, contain- ing the notice. 265 In Memoriam [William Makepeace Thackeray]. By Charles Dickens. (In The Cornhill Magazine, Febru- ary, 1864, pp. [I29]-I32.) Octavo. Original yellow wrapper. 266 The Gad's Hill Gazette, 1 864-1 865. Quarto and octavo. 12 numbers and 2 supplements, in manuscript, stylographed and 197 THE WORKS OF DICKENS printed. Charles Kent's copies, addressed to him, some with envelopes. Bound by San- gorsky and Sutcliffe, with six pages of de- scription on vellum, with illuminations. These little papers by Dickens's children, re- cording events at Gad's Hill, were edited by his sixth son, Henry Fielding Dickens. The numbers are dated August 6, 13, 20, 27, [1864], January 6, 14, 21, 28, February 4, August 5, 19, 26, 1865, the first (No. 14) being in manuscript, the next three repro- duced by means of copying paper, and the remainder printed on the little press pre- sented to the family by W. H. Wills. Dick- ens is said to have made occasional contri- butions, and in the number for August 13 a note is added in his handwriting. A fac- simile of the number for August 5, 1865, has been issued. 267 The Gad's Hill Gazette, December 30, 1865, and January 6, 1866. Corrected proof of the number for December 30. The number for January 6 was "con- trary to our usual custom . . . sent to Print- ers". These two numbers have the Dickens crest added to the title. 268 The Great International Walking Match of February 29, 1868. The Articles of Agreement signed by The 198 MISCELLANEOUS DICKENSIANA Man of Ross otherwise George Dolby, The Boston Bantam other- wise James R. Osgood, Massachu- setts Jemmy otherwise James T. Fields, The Gad's Hill Gasper other- wise Charles Dickens; witnessed by A. V. S. Anthony. Followed by a de- scription of the match by Dickens, who was one of the umpires. Broadside, in original frame selected by Dick- ens. There are said to have been five copies printed, one for each of the above mentioned gentlemen. 269 More Hints On Etiquette . . . Lon- don: Charles Tilt . . . MDCCC- XXXVIII. Twentyfour-mo. Original limp maroon cover, w^ith gold design. Woodcuts by George Cruikshank. This has been attributed to Dickens on the strength of a page in his handwriting, bound w^ith the original manuscript (see next num- ber). F. G. Kitton, however, wrote in The Athenaeum, September 11, 1897, that, having compared the page in Dickens's autograph with the printed text, he found "no such pas- sages, nor anything approximating thereto, as those in the particular page of manuscript, 199 THE WORKS OF DICKENS which, however, treats the subject of etiquette in the same humorous way." 270 Original Manuscript, In handwriting resembling George Cruikshank's, con- taining the general outline of More Hints on Etiquette. Quarto. 21 leaves, with one page in Dick- ens's handwriting (see preceding number), and several letters to Cruikshank bound in. On the versos of leaves 14 and 15 are sketches showing Cruikshank's first ideas for the plate, Oliver plucks up Spirit, in Oliver Twist. 271 The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman . . . London: Charles Tilt . . . MDCCCXXXIX. Twentyfour-mo. Original limp green cover, with gold design by George Cruikshank. 12 plates by Cruikshank. Although this has been attributed to Thack- eray, Cruikshank and Dickens, it is now thought, with reasonable certainty, that the ballad is by Thackeray and the preface and notes by Dickens. 272 Lizzie Leigh. A Domestic Tale, from ^^Household Words/' by 200 MISCELLANEOUS DICKENSIANA Charles Dickens. New York: De- Witt & Davenport . . . 1850. Duodecimo. Original buff wrapper. Writ- ten by Mrs. Gaskell. 273 A Pottery Story. By Charles Dick- ens. Boston: Jones, McDuffee & Stratton, 1878. Duodecimo. Original buff wrapper. Used as an advertisement. In spite of his name on the title-page, there seems to be no reason for attributing this to Dickens. 274 A Letter from Hop-O'-My-Thumb to Charles Dickens, Esq. Upon *Trauds on the Fairies'', 'Whole Hogs", etc. [At end] London: Pub- lished by D. Bogue . . . Duodecimo. 8 pp., stitched. 2 woodcuts by George Cruikshank, whose autograph ap- pears on p. [i]. Accompanied by George Cruikshank's Magazine, February, 1854, ^^ which this letter by Cruikshank appeared. 275 Poem delivered before the Pickwick Club, Dorchester, at the Tenth Anni- versary Meeting ... By Francis P. 201 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Denny. Boston : Printed for Private Circulation. 1866. Octavo. Original yellow wrapper. 276 Lloyd's Pickwickian Twelfth Night Characters ! ! ! Broadside, colored. 277 Prospectus of the ^^Charles Dickens'' Mining Company, Idaho, U. S. A. 278 Poster announcing Dickens ^Tinal Farewell Readings" at Tremont Temple, Boston, April 1-3, and 6-8, 1868. With this are bound the following songs and early programmes of plays founded upon Dickens's works: Programmes — The Strange Gentleman, The Pickwickians, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Crummleses, The Ad- ventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. Songs — Dora, Agnes, What are the Wild Waves say- ing?. Little Nell, Floating away. Tiny Tim, A Christmas Carol, The Boy at Mugby, Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, and Great Expec- tations. Also, The Dora Polka, Tom Tid- dler's Polka, The Nicholas Nickleby Quad- rilles, and Dickens's own song. The Ivy Green, with music by Henry Russell. 202 MISCELLANEOUS DICKENSIANA 279 Engravings after portraits of Dick- ens's Characters, painted by W. P. Frith. a. Dolly Varden. Engraved by S. W. Reynolds ; colored. b. Dolly Varden. Engraved by C. E. Wagstaffe; colored. c. Dolly Varden and Miss Haredale. Engraved by S. W. Reynolds and G. S. Shury. d. Kate Nickleby. Engraved by W. Holl. 280 Illustrations to the Household Edi- tion of Dickens's Works, 1871--1879. 281 Twenty Scenes from the Works of Dickens designed and etched by Christopher Coveny. Sydney, 1883. 282 [Two] Series of Character Sketches from Dickens. From Original Draw- ings by Frederick Barnard. London, i884[-85]. Each series contains six plates, in portfolio. 203 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 283 People of Dickens. Drawn by C. D. Gibson. New York, 1897. Six plates, in portfolio. 283a Dickens's Children. Ten Draw- ings by Jessie Willcox Smith. New York, 191 2. 10 proofs. 284 John Gilpin. Drawn and etched by Hablot K. Browne. The first independent work of Dickens's greatest illustrator, for which, at the age of seventeen, he was awarded a silver medal offered by the Society of Arts for "the best representation of an historical subject." 285 Welcome to Charles Dickens. The Boz Ball. To be given under the direction of a Committee of Citizens of New York, at the Park Theatre, on the Evening of the Fourteenth of February next. New York, 1842. 286 Boz in New York. Eight pages, folio, in newspaper type, with 204 MISCELLANEOUS DICKENSIANA illustrations, giving an account of Dickens's arrival, the "Boz Ball," etc. 287 Account of the Ball given in honor of Charles Dickens in New York City, February 14, 1842, from the New York Aurora-Extra. Privately print- ed, Cedar Rapids, 1908. 288 The Battle of London Life; or, Boz and his Secretary. With six designs on stone by George Sala. London, 1849. This plagiaristic attempt, with pictorial cover, is by Captain O'Keefe, and is chiefly inter- esting for its frontispiece, "Boz" in his Study, by George Sala. 289 Charles Dickens: Critical Biography . . . London, 1858. (Our Contem- poraries, No. I.) 290 Charles Dickens. By George Augus- tus Sala. London, [n.d.] A slightly extended reprint of Sala's article, which appeared in the Daily Telegraph on June 10, 1870, the day after Dickens's death. 205 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 291 Sermon preached by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, D.D., Dean of Westminster Abbey, June 19, 1870 . . . being the Sunday following the Funeral of Charles Dickens. London, 1870. 292 *These to his Memory.'' A Christ- mas Memorial of the Greatest of Christmas Writers, Charles Dickens. By A. B. Hume. London, Christmas, 1870. 293 The Life of Charles Dickens. By John Forster. London, 1872 [-74]. Three volumes. Charles Kent's copy. 294 Scrap-book containing newspaper clip- pings about Dickens and his works. 294a Sargeant Bell, and his Raree-Show . . . London, Thomas Tegg, 1839. Twentyfour-mo. Original cloth binding. Woodcuts by Cruikshank and others. Incorrectly associated with Dickens. 206 MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS The South Kensington Museum pos- sesses an unrivalled collection of Dickens's Manuscripts, bequeathed by John Forster, to whom Dickens presented them, either personally, or through his bequest of **such manu- scripts of my published works as may be in my possession at the time of my decease''. It is therefore impossible to gather elsewhere a large collection of the manuscripts of the author's masterpieces. Under these circum- stances, we feel that we are to be congratulated upon being able to ex- hibit, either entire or in part, the manuscripts of Pickwick Papers (No. 30), Sketches of Young Gentlemen (No. 80), Nicholas Nickleby (No. 86), A Christmas Carol (No. 115), The Battle of Life (No. 148), Out of Town (No. 165), The Best Au- thority (No. 168), His Brown Paper 207 THE WORKS OF DICKENS Parcel (No. 187), Hunted Down (No. 198), and A Holiday Romance (No. 217), besides outline drafts of several short stories (Nos. 166, 167, 186 and 188), the Gore House Speech (No. 254), and the following miscellaneous numbers. Lack of space prevents us from showing more than a representative number of autograph letters, in addi- tion to those already mentioned in connection with previous numbers. A few volumes containing published let- ters are added to this section. 295 Original Petty Cash Book kept by Charles Dickens when employed as a lawyer's clerk, in the office of Edward Blackmore, Gray's Inn. Quarto. 26 pp. The entries are dated from January 5 to March 16, 1828. 296 First Page of Dickens's unpublished travesty, The O'Thello, written in 1832-33. Quarto. 208 MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS 297 Original Manuscript of Dreadful Hardships endured by the Ship- wrecked Crew of *^The London''. Quarto. One page, contributed to Punch, but not published. 298 Verses addressed to Mark Lemon, entitled New Song. 299 Original Manuscript of the Prologue (48 lines) which Dickens wrote for J. W. Marston's The Patrician's Daughter, 1842. Quarto. Dickens also wrote the prologue of The Lighthouse, by Wilkie Collins, and con- tributed The Song of the Wreck to the same work. 300 Original Manuscript Parody on Gray's Elegy. Quarto, i^ pp. 300a Original Articles of Agreement for American copyright of Dickens's works:— Fred: Chapman and James Ripley Osgood. 209 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 301 Collection of nine Autograph Letters from Dickens to Angus Fletcher, Richard Bentley, Chapman and Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Macready, John Auldjo, Mrs. Watson and Archibald Mitchie, written from 1839 to 1867. Bound with a collection of engraved portraits, representing Dickens at various ages. 302 Collection of miscellaneous Auto- graph Letters from Dickens, with his visiting card and photograph. 303 Autograph Letter (3 pp.) from Dick- ens to Washington Irving, dated Sep- tember 28, 1 841, announcing his ap- proaching visit to America. Accompanied by autograph letter from R. H. Dana, Jr., to Edward Moxon, describing Dickens's reception in Boston, and an orig- inal water-color drawing by George H. Boughton, illustrating a scene described in this letter: — *'He found the ante room, stair- case, &c., lined with females, young & old". 304 A Stray Leaf from the Correspon- dence of Washington Irving and 210 MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS Charles Dickens. By William Loring Andrews. New York, 1894. Descriptive of the preceding. One of 15 copies with the frontispiece in three states. 305 Dickens's signature, dated ^'Tremont House, Boston. Second February, 1842.'' 306 Autograph Letter from Dickens de- scribing his visit to Niagara Falls, 1842. 307 Two Autograph Letters from Dick- ens to Joseph Jenkins, dated May, 1 85 1, in regard to Jenkins's design for a ticket of admission to the per- formances of the Guild of Literature and Art. Accompanied by Jenkins's original drawing for the ticket and three proofs, and by a dif- ferent ticket for the Guild's performance at Birmingham, May 12, 1852, ''Etched by T. O. Barlow, from a Design by E. M. Ward." 308 Five Autograph Letters from Dick- ens to Thomas Heaphy, dated Sep- 211 THE WORKS OF DICKENS tember, 1861, as published in the fol- lowing number. 309 A Wonderful Ghost Story, being Mr. H.'s own Narrative reprinted from ''All the Year Round/' with Letters hitherto unpublished of Charles Dick- ens to the Author respecting it. By Thomas Heaphy. London, 1882. 310 Further Testimonials in Favour of W. C. Bennett . . . Letters from Distinguished Men of the Time. 1838-1868. Letter from Dickens on pp. 6-7, dated July 14, 1847. 311 Mr. Thackeray, Mr. Yates, and the Garrick Club. The Correspondence and Facts stated by Edmund Yates. Printed for Private Circulation. 1859. Dickens-Thackeray correspondence on pp. 13-14. First issue, with Dickens misspelled "Dickes" on p. 14. This seems to be Dick- ens's own copy. 212 MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS 312 Street Music in the Metropolis . . . By Michael T. Bass, M.D. London, 1864. Letter from Dickens, signed also by Tenny- son and twenty-six others, pp. 41-42. 313 Infelicia. By Adah Isaacs Menken. London, Paris, New York, 1868. Dedicated to Dickens, with facsimile of his letter accepting the dedication. 314 The Letters of Charles Dickens. Edited by his Sister-in-law and his eld- est Daughter . . . London, 1880-82. Two volumes, and supplement. 315 The Pen. A Journal of Literature. No. L Vol. L May 22, 1880. Letter from Dickens on pp. 15-16. 316 Letters of Dickens to Wilkie Collins. Edited by Laurence Hutton. New York, 1892. Accompanied by the numbers of Harper's Magazine, in which they first appeared. 317 Charles Dickens and Maria Beadnell. Private Correspondence, edited by 213 THE WORKS OF DICKENS G. P. Baker. Boston, The Biblio- phile Society, 1908. 318 The Dickens-Kolle Letters. Edited by Harry B. Smith. Boston, The Bibliophile Society, 19 10. 214 PORTRAITS OF DICKENS 319 Miniature on Ivory, by Mrs. Janet Barrow (Charles Dickens's aunt). The earliest known portrait of Dick- ens, painted in 1830. 320 Original Pencil Sketch, by H. K. Browne, 1836. 321 Original Pencil Sketch, by Daniel Maclise, 1840. 322 Seven Original Sketches, by Pierre Morand, 1842. Morand was a fellow passenger of Dickens during his first voyage to America. The sketches show Dickens in various attitudes on the deck of the Britannia, and at the Tremont House, Boston; and on the back of each is written an account of the circumstances un- der which it was made. 323 Original Pencil Sketch by Charles Martin, 1843. 215 THE WORKS OF DICKENS 324 Original Crayon Sketch by E. G. Lewis, 1869. 325 Original Pen and Ink Sketch by ''Spy'' (Leslie Ward). 326 Original Water-color Sketch for Sem's Pantheon (Dickens riding on a bicycle). 327 Original Portrait in Oils, painted by John D. Barrow during Dickens's second visit to America, 1867-68. 328 Original Portrait in Oils, painted by William B. Myers, 1869. The portrait is signed *'W. B. M., 1869," and is accompanied by an account from the New York Sun, April 30, 191 1, of the identifica- tion of the painter, the young son-in-law of a Virginia friend of Dickens. His widow is living, and remembers that her husband made sketches of Dickens, from the life, from which sketches the portrait was painted. It formed part of the collection of J. Abner Harper, who stated that he prized it above any picture in his collection. 216 PORTRAITS OF DICKENS 329 Original Portrait in Oils, signed *^E. P., 1870''; found in the collection of J. L. Toole, the actor. 330 Three photographs of Dickens, taken in America. 331 Collection of Engraved Portraits of Dickens, after H. K. Browne, Daniel Maclise, George Cruikshank, Count D'Orsay, C. R. Leslie, W. P. Frith, and others. The portrait by Finden after Maclise is autographed by Dick- ens. 332 Medal, ^'To commemorate the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Charles Dickens. Issued by the Dickens Centenary Committee of New York, February 7, 19 12.'* 217 PERSONAL RELICS 333 Books from Dickens's Library, with his book-plate and label. a. Johnson's Dictionary of the Eng- lish Language. London, 1825. b. Constable's Miscellany, Vol. XVIL Edinburgh, 1825. c. Adventures of Oliver Twist. Lon- don, 1846. d. Italian and English Dictionary. London, 1846. With Dickens's au- tograph notes. e. Scenes from Clerical Life, by George Eliot. London, 1859. Two volumes. f . Thackeray the Humourist and the Man of Letters [by J. C. Hotten]. London, 1864. Presentation copy. g. Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London, 1866. 334 Love, Law, and Physic. A Farce ... by James Kenney. London, n.d. 218 PERSONAL RELICS Dickens's prompt book, with his manuscript alterations for an amateur performance, in which he played the part of Flexible. Ac- companied by the programme of the per- formance, "in aid of the fund for the endowment of a perpetual curatorship of Shakspeare's house". 335 Tales of a Wayside Inn, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. London, 1864. Charles Kent's copy, with the following in- scription in Longfellow's handwriting: "In memory of a happy day passed with the owner of this book at Gad's Hill Place, July 5, 1868", signed. 336 Dickens's Office Slate, the space for writing divided Into halves, labeled, ^^Mr. C. D.'' and ^^Mr. C. D. Junr." 337 Dickens's Seal, with Initials, *'C. D.", used by him at Gad's Hill and In the office of All the Year Round. 338 Dickens's Paper Knife, of Ivory, with silver tablet Inscribed: **A memento of my dear friend, Charles Dickens, 219 THE WORKS OF DICKENS constantly used by him. Given by Georgina Hogarth to Maria S. Win- ter, June, 1870.'* 339 A Chair from Dickens's dining-room at Gad's Hill Place. 340 A Bench from Dickens's Swiss Chalet at Gad's Hill Place. 341 Dickens's Calendar, which stood upon his desk at the time of his death. 1 342 ''The Empty Chair, Gad's Hill, June 9, 1870." From The Graphic, after the painting by Sir Luke Fildes. 220