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ILl.u.s.tRATIONS TO THE PICKWICK CLUB.--Thirty-two plates by ”Samuel Weller.” ”The local scenery sketched on the spot”
The majority are signed ”Samuel Weller, delt.;” a few bear the artist's initials, ”T.O.,” while others have no signature appended. Issued in eight monthly parts, green wrappers, demy 8vo, one s.h.i.+lling each, and published complete in one volume, boards, price 9s. London: E.
Grattan, 51 Paternoster Row, 1837. According to the announcement on the cover of Part I., there were to have been ten parts, and india-proof impressions, 4to, price 2s.
Some of the unsigned plates are much inferior to those bearing Onwhyn's signature. A set of these ”Pickwick”
plates, in the original parts, have been catalogued at fifteen guineas. Lithographic _replicas_ were issued in small 8vo by J. Newman, 48 Watling Street, 1848, for insertion in the first Cheap Edition of ”Pickwick.” Twelve of these plates (etched by J. Yeager) were included in a ”new edition” of ”Pickwick” published by Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1838, and reprinted in 1850. (_See also_ ”Alfred Crowquill.”)
ILl.u.s.tRATIONS TO THE PICKWICK CLUB.--Twelve etchings on steel, 1847. Published in green wrapper by A. Jackson, 224 Great Portland Street, in 1894. Prices, per set, india-proofs 30s.; coloured by Pailthorpe, 25s.; plain, 18s.
ILl.u.s.tRATIONS TO ”NICHOLAS NICKLEBY.”--”Edited by 'Boz.' By Peter Palette, Esq.” Forty etchings, comprising ten portraits and thirty scenes. Issued in nine parts, demy 8vo, price one s.h.i.+lling each, green and buff wrappers, having a design representing an easel with a palette affixed.
Published at intervals from June 30, 1838, to October 31, 1839, and subsequently as a volume. London: E. Grattan, Paternoster Row, 1839. The publisher, when launching these designs, seemed unable to determine the exact number of parts in which they should appear. On the wrappers of Parts 1 to 5 it is stated that they would be completed in eight parts; on the wrappers of Parts 6 and 7, in ten parts; and on that of Part 8, in nine parts. Parts 1 to 5 contain four plates each, 6 to 8 contain five plates each, and 9 contains five plates, thus making the full complement of forty designs. The work was afterwards republished by Grattan & Gilbert, 51 Paternoster Row, and again reprinted (_circa_ 1847)--thirty-two plates only, which were styled ”proofs”--in small 4to, on buff paper. About the same time a similar number of these designs were issued as lithographs, in eight parts, small 4to. Newman, N.D.
In 1897, Mr. George Allen, of 156 Charing Cross Road, issued india-proof impressions from the thirty-two original steel plates for ”Pickwick,” and from thirty-eight for ”Nickleby,”
the edition being strictly limited to 250 sets for each work. Price 5, 5s. per set. Cloth portfolio, 12 by 9 inches, with t.i.tle-page and list of subjects. The plates have been well preserved.
H. M. PAGET.
PICKWICK PICTURES.--Six character sketches, printed in colours, with letterpress. Crown 8vo. Ill.u.s.trated wrapper.
London: Ernest Nister, 24 St. Bride Street, E.C. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 31 West Twenty-Third Street, N.D.
F. W. PAILTHORPE.
PICKWICK.--Twenty-four etchings, from original drawings, of scenes not previously ill.u.s.trated. Impl. 8vo. Ill.u.s.trated wrapper. London: Robson & Kerslake, 1882. Price two guineas the set, proofs on india-paper (before letters), three guineas.
PICKWICK.--Three vignette t.i.tles, etched in 1892 for an extended version of the Victoria Edition. An original tinted drawing (unpublished) of ”Gabriel Grub and the Goblin” is included in Mr. Thomas Wilson's Collection.
OLIVER TWIST.--Twenty-one etchings. London: Robson & Kerslake, 23 Coventry Street, Haymarket, 1886. Only fifty sets printed, a few of which were coloured by the artist, also proofs on india-paper, in portfolio.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS.--Twenty-one etchings. London: Robson & Kerslake, 23 Coventry Street, Haymarket, 1885. Only fifty sets printed, a few of which were coloured by the artist; also proofs on india-paper, in portfolio.
Mr. Pailthorpe has designed and etched frontispieces (some coloured) for reprints of the following: ”The Strange Gentleman” and ”The Village Coquettes,” 1880 (C. Hindley); ”Is She His Wife?” ”Mr. Nightingale's Diary,” and ”The Lamplighter,” 1887 (Robson & Kerslake). The first set of impressions of the frontispiece for ”The Village Coquettes”
was coloured, after which the plate disappeared, so that no plain impressions could be issued. The only uncoloured print, taken before the completion of the etching, is included in Mr. Thomas Wilson's Collection. This plate was the artist's second attempt at designing.
Mr. Pailthorpe has etched a portrait of Samuel Weller writing his love-letter, for ”The Origin of Sam Weller”
(Jarvis & Son), 1883; the frontispiece and vignette-t.i.tle for ”A New Piljian's Projiss, written by Mrs. Gamp, edited by Charles d.i.c.kens,” 1890 (unpublished); etched borders containing characters and scenes from d.i.c.kens, for Mr.
William Wright, of Paris. The artist also designed six new plates for the ”Memoirs of Grimaldi,” which, however, were only edited by d.i.c.kens.
”JACOB PARALLEL.”
”JACOB PARALLEL'S HANDS TO HUMPHREY'S CLOCK; or, Sketches from the Clock Case.”--Twelve etchings on steel, ill.u.s.trating ”The Old Curiosity Shop” and ”Barnaby Rudge.”
Two parts, Impl. 8vo, green ill.u.s.trated wrappers, price two s.h.i.+llings each. London: G. Berger, Holywell Street, Strand, N.D [1840-41]. A series of ill.u.s.trations of the princ.i.p.al scenes and portraits of the characters, ten for the first story and two for the second. The design on the wrapper represents Master Humphrey standing on a chair winding up the clock, against which rests a framed portrait of ”Boz.”
E. RICHARDSON.
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