Part 32 (1/2)

CHARLES GREEN, R.I.

From a Photograph

_Lent by Mr. Townley Green, R.I._

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”THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH.”--Six woodcut Portraits of the Princ.i.p.al Characters. Unsigned. _The Pictorial Times_, Dec.

27, 1845.

W. HEATH.

”PICKWICKIAN ILl.u.s.tRATIONS.”-Twenty etched designs, demy 8vo. Ornamental paper wrapper, having t.i.tle printed in gold on a black label. Price 5s. London: T. McLean, Haymarket, 1837. All the plates bear the t.i.tle, ”Pickwickian Ill.u.s.trations” as a headline, and, with the exception of the last four, are numbered; the last four bear the publisher's imprint. A set of these scarce etchings was recently catalogued at twenty guineas.

”KYD” (J. Clayton Clarke).

THE CHARACTERS OF CHARLES d.i.c.kENS.--A series of original water-colour drawings, signed with monogram, J.C.C. A collection of these, 241 in number, realised ten guineas at the Cosens sale in 1890. Mr. Thomas Wilson possesses 331 drawings by ”Kyd,” which probably include those formerly owned by the late Mr. F. W. Cosens.

A series of twenty-four of these drawings were reproduced by chromo-lithography, small 4to, ill.u.s.trated boards, and published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, London, Paris, and New York, N.D.

THE CHARACTERS OF d.i.c.kENS.--Studies of a few of the leading personages in the novels. _The Fleet Street Magazine_, 1887.

W. MADDOX and H. WARREN.

”LITTLE NELL” and ”MRS. QUILP.”--Engraved by Finden from drawings by W. Maddox and H. Warren respectively, for the first Cheap Edition of ”The Old Curiosity Shop,” 1848.

London: Chapman & Hall. Kenny Meadows designed a portrait of ”Barbara” for the same work.

KENNY MEADOWS.

d.i.c.kENS CHARACTERS.--”Gallery of Comicalities.”--”London Particulars.” This series of portraits (some of which are signed with the artist's initials) include f.a.gin, the Artful Dodger, Charley Bates, Sam Weller, Oliver Twist, Mr. b.u.mble.

Each portrait is accompanied by a poem of forty lines.

Published in _Bell's Life in London_, 1838.

HEADS FROM ”NICHOLAS NICKLEBY.”--Portraits of twenty-four of the princ.i.p.al characters, ”from drawings by Miss La Creevy.”

Six parts, demy 8vo, price 6d. each. London: Robert Tyas, Cheapside, N.D. [1839]. The separate parts were enclosed in a buff ill.u.s.trated wrapper, having at each corner a portrait of a member of the Nickleby family, and in the centre a representation of Miss La Creevy, seated before a portrait of ”Boz” (after S. Laurence). Included among the advertis.e.m.e.nts in the first number is an announcement of this production, with an engraving depicting Miss La Creevy at work. The ill.u.s.trations are here said to be ”etched by A.

Drypoint,” but they are really woodcuts. The following explanatory statement, which forms part of the announcement, is not without interest: ”These 'Heads' will comprise Portraits of the most interesting individuals that appear in 'The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby,' selected at the period when their very actions define their true character, and exhibit the inward mind by its outward manifestations. Each Portrait will be a literal transcript from the accurate and vividly minute descriptions of this able and graphic author, and will present to the eye an equally faithful version of the maiden simplicity of Kate Nickleby--the depravity of Sir Mulberry Hawk--the imbecility of his dupe--the heartless villainy of the calculating Ralph--the generosity of the n.o.ble-minded Nicholas--the broken spirit of poor Smike--and the brutality of Squeers.

These and many others furnish subjects for the display of the Artist's genius, and will form an interesting and most desirable addition to the work.” The ”Heads” were also issued in a collected form, in a green wrapper and in cloth, and were republished in ”The Sc.r.a.p Book of Literary Varieties,” the names of the characters being changed into brief descriptive t.i.tles, such as ”Miniature Painter”

instead of ”Miss La Creevy.” Cloth, 8vo. London: Edward Lacy, 74 St. Paul's Churchyard, N.D.

”BARBARA.”--Engraved by Finden, and published with two plates by W. Maddox and H. Warren to ill.u.s.trate the first Cheap Edition of ”The Old Curiosity Shop,” 1848. Price 7d.

London: Chapman & Hall.

THOMAS ONWHYN (”Sam Weller,” ”Peter Palette”).