Accession number
PML 131995-2014
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Published
London : Chapman and Hall, 1840-1841.
Credit line
Bequest; Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Wrapper title: Master Humphrey's clock / by "Boz" ... ; with illustrations by G. Cattermole and H.K. Browne.
Issued in 20 monthly parts from April, 1840, to Nov., 1841, in numbered and dated wrappers and with advertising matter. Title pages and preliminaries for 3 vols. appear in parts 6, 12, and 20. (Also issued in 88 weekly numbers and 3 v. set).
Includes "The old curiosity shop" and "Barnaby Rudge".
Illustrated with wood engraved frontispieces, 168 wood engraved vignettes, and 24 wood engraved initials after Cattermole and H.K. Browne; with one illustration each by S. Williams (v. 1, no. 4, p. 46) and by Daniel Maclise (v. 2, no. 55, p. 108). Cf. Hatton, p. 165. Several of the iIllustrations signed by engravers E. Landells, S. Williams, C. Gray and Vaseys.
Advertising matter on inside of front wrappers and on recto and verso of rear wrappers, with additional leaves of advertisements bound in at the end of individual parts throughout.
Includes "The old curiosity shop" and "Barnaby Rudge."
"Bradbury and Evans, Printers, Whitefriars"--no. 1, colophon.
Issued in 20 monthly parts from April, 1840, to Nov., 1841, in numbered and dated wrappers and with advertising matter. Title pages and preliminaries for 3 vols. appear in parts 6, 12, and 20. (Also issued in 88 weekly numbers and 3 v. set).
Includes "The old curiosity shop" and "Barnaby Rudge".
Illustrated with wood engraved frontispieces, 168 wood engraved vignettes, and 24 wood engraved initials after Cattermole and H.K. Browne; with one illustration each by S. Williams (v. 1, no. 4, p. 46) and by Daniel Maclise (v. 2, no. 55, p. 108). Cf. Hatton, p. 165. Several of the iIllustrations signed by engravers E. Landells, S. Williams, C. Gray and Vaseys.
Advertising matter on inside of front wrappers and on recto and verso of rear wrappers, with additional leaves of advertisements bound in at the end of individual parts throughout.
Includes "The old curiosity shop" and "Barnaby Rudge."
"Bradbury and Evans, Printers, Whitefriars"--no. 1, colophon.
Description
20 pts. (306, [2], iv, [2], 306, vi, 420, [4], 421-426, [v]-vi) : ill. (wood engraving) ; 27 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Original light blue printed part wrappers; housed in brown leather drop-down box.
Classification
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