Part 31 (1/2)

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

Dexter's Collection.)

H. K. BROWNE (”Phiz”).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Engraved on steel by Edwin Roffe, from hitherto unpublished drawings by Hablot K.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(_See pp. 100-101._)

”BRUSH.”

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

Etchings by ”Brush.” London, printed for the proprietor by W. T. Davey, 16 Great Sutton Street, Clerkenwell; published by W. Britain, 11 Paternoster Row, 1840. Price one s.h.i.+lling.

ALFRED BRYAN.

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

CHRISTOPHER COVENY.

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

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