BIB_ID
310023
Accession number
MA 7800
Creator
Forster, John, 1812-1876.
Published
London : Chapman and Hall, 1872-1874.
Description
3 v. in 10 v. (2,322 p.) : ill., ports. ; 40 cm
Notes
Added manuscript material consists of 130 items, including: autograph letters of Charles Dickens, William Wordsworth, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Thomas Moore, Washington Irving, George Augustus Sala, and autograph letters, notes and documents of James Knowles, G. H. Lewes, Angus Fletcher, Marie Taglioni, the Duke of Wellington, Lady Blessington, Count D'Orsay, John Leech, Edwin Landseer, Mark Lemon, H. K. Browne, Robert Peel, Angela Burdett-Coutts, Douglas Jerrold, David Wilkie, D. Maclise, Richard Doyle, Samuel Rogers, Henry Brougham, Charles Mathews, John Forster, Clarkson Stanfield, John Poole, Edward Everett, William Wilberforce, William Powell Frith, C. R. Leslie, Napoleon III, James R. Planché, Philip Cunliffe Owen, Anna M. Hall, E. Maunde Thompson, J. I. Brunel, Pulteney Bigelow, Charles W. Dilke, Augustus Egg, and others. Significant manuscript items have been cataloged separately; see related records. See collection files for complete inventory of added manuscript material.
Added portraits consist of: 178 engraved, lithographic and photographic portraits and caricatures of Dickens (including examples by or after George Cruikshank, Richard Doyle, John Leech and others); and 461 portraits of other persons, mostly engraved.
Added printed ephemera consists of: specimen wrappers from original serial parts, including examples from most of Dickens's works so issued and cloth covers for A Christmas Carol, as well as related theater broadsides, playbills, tickets, and programs.
Added views and illustrations consist of: ca. 1200 book illustrations and views (19 of which are hand-colored), including suites of illustrations to most of Dickens's major books; 3 sepia aquatints from Malton's London; 3 colored aquatints from Ackermann's Microcosm and 2 from The History of St. Peter's, Westminster; 7 original drawings, including 1 by H. K. Browne (on a letter, MA 7800.65) and 1 by W. H. Caldwell illustrating Nicholas Nickelby; numerous examples after George Cruikshank (22 pieces), D. Maclise (4), W. H. Bartlett (34), J. M. W. Turner (15), H. K. Browne (53), Thomas Rowlandson, John Leech, Richard Doyle, W. Westall, J. P. Cockburn, T. H. Shepherd and others, including Cruikshank's The Bottle (n.d.) and The Drunkard's Children (1848).
Published by Chapman and Hall in 3 vols. (1872-1874); this set expanded to 10 vols.
Vol. 1: 266 p.; vol. 2: 269 p.; vol. 3: 201 p.; vol. 4: 256 p.; vol. 5: 208 p.; vol. 6: 239 p.; vol. 7: 245 p.; vol. 8: 215 p.; vol. 9: 263 p.; vol. 10: 160 p.
Added portraits consist of: 178 engraved, lithographic and photographic portraits and caricatures of Dickens (including examples by or after George Cruikshank, Richard Doyle, John Leech and others); and 461 portraits of other persons, mostly engraved.
Added printed ephemera consists of: specimen wrappers from original serial parts, including examples from most of Dickens's works so issued and cloth covers for A Christmas Carol, as well as related theater broadsides, playbills, tickets, and programs.
Added views and illustrations consist of: ca. 1200 book illustrations and views (19 of which are hand-colored), including suites of illustrations to most of Dickens's major books; 3 sepia aquatints from Malton's London; 3 colored aquatints from Ackermann's Microcosm and 2 from The History of St. Peter's, Westminster; 7 original drawings, including 1 by H. K. Browne (on a letter, MA 7800.65) and 1 by W. H. Caldwell illustrating Nicholas Nickelby; numerous examples after George Cruikshank (22 pieces), D. Maclise (4), W. H. Bartlett (34), J. M. W. Turner (15), H. K. Browne (53), Thomas Rowlandson, John Leech, Richard Doyle, W. Westall, J. P. Cockburn, T. H. Shepherd and others, including Cruikshank's The Bottle (n.d.) and The Drunkard's Children (1848).
Published by Chapman and Hall in 3 vols. (1872-1874); this set expanded to 10 vols.
Vol. 1: 266 p.; vol. 2: 269 p.; vol. 3: 201 p.; vol. 4: 256 p.; vol. 5: 208 p.; vol. 6: 239 p.; vol. 7: 245 p.; vol. 8: 215 p.; vol. 9: 263 p.; vol. 10: 160 p.
Provenance
Bookplate of Albert Henry Wiggin; by descent to his daughter Marjorie Wiggin Prescott; her sale (Christie's, New York, 6 February 1981, lot 87); Frederick Koch.
Summary
First edition, the original text inlaid to folio sheets, expanded to 10 vols. and extra-illustrated with ca. 2060 engravings, drawings, portraits, autographs, theater posters, wrappers of serial parts, periodical clippings and other material, including: 130 autograph letters, notes and documents; 178 portraits and caricatures of Dickens; 461 portraits of other persons; ca. 1200 book illustrations and views; and specimen wrappers from original serial parts.
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