Chapter C: D. Gibson

THE PEOPLE OF DICKENS.--Six large photogravures from
original drawings. Issued in a portfolio, proofs, 20s.
London: John Lane; New York: R. H. Russell, 1897. These
drawings were originally made for an American publication
called _The Ladies' Home Journal_, and were reprinted in
_Black and White_ at intervals during 1896-97.

SIR JOHN GILBERT, R.A.

PICKWICK.--"Appleyard's Edition. Price 2d. Plates to
illustrate the Cheap Edition of the Works of Mr. Charles
Dickens. From original designs by John Gilbert, Esq.
Engraved [on wood] by Messrs. Greenaway & Wright." Eight
monthly parts, post 8vo, each containing four plates
engraved on wood. Buff illustrated wrappers. Part 4 was
issued with Part 5 in one wrapper, and the same condition
was observed regarding Parts 7 and 8, the price of these
double numbers being fourpence. Some of the designs are
printed on the front of the wrappers, and on the inside of
the back of the last wrapper appears a list of the
thirty-two plates, with pagination. A limited number were
printed on india-paper. London: E. Appleyard, 86 Farringdon
Street, N.D. [1847]. These excellent plates are extremely
rare.

NICHOLAS NICKLEBY.--"Appleyard's Edition. Price 2d. Plates
to illustrate the Cheap Edition of the Works of Mr. Charles
Dickens." Thirty-two designs, engraved on wood by Greenaway
& Wright, and published in parts. Post 8vo. The first
instalment (with portrait of Squeers on a buff illustrated
wrapper) contains four designs, which were all that Gilbert
produced, the remainder (unsigned) being by inferior
artists, the majority engraved by C. M. Gorway. Published
complete in a yellow illustrated wrapper by E. Appleyard, 86
Farringdon Street, London. Price 1s. 6d.

PLATE LXIX

F. W. PAILTHORPE

From a Photograph by

F. W. CLARK

_Lent by the Artist._

CHARLES GREEN, R.I.

From a Photograph

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

"THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH."--Six woodcut Portraits of the
Principal Characters. Unsigned. _The Pictorial Times_, Dec.
27, 1845.

W. HEATH.

"PICKWICKIAN ILLUSTRATIONS."-Twenty etched designs, demy
8vo. Ornamental paper wrapper, having title printed in gold
on a black label. Price 5s. London: T. McLean, Haymarket,
1837. All the plates bear the title, "Pickwickian
Illustrations" 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 DICKENS.--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, illustrated boards, and
published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, London, Paris, and New
York, N.D.

THE CHARACTERS OF DICKENS.--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.

DICKENS CHARACTERS.--"Gallery of Comicalities."--"London
Particulars." This series of portraits (some of which are
signed with the artist's initials) include Fagin, the Artful
Dodger, Charley Bates, Sam Weller, Oliver Twist, Mr. Bumble.
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 principal 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 illustrated 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
advertisements in the first number is an announcement of
this production, with an engraving depicting Miss La Creevy
at work. The illustrations 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 noble-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 Scrap Book of Literary
Varieties," the names of the characters being changed into
brief descriptive titles, 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 illustrate the first
Cheap Edition of "The Old Curiosity Shop," 1848. Price 7d.
London: Chapman & Hall.

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

ILLUSTRATIONS 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 shilling 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.")

ILLUSTRATIONS 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.

ILLUSTRATIONS 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 shilling 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 title-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. Illustrated 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 illustrated. Impl. 8vo. Illustrated
wrapper. London: Robson & Kerslake, 1882. Price two guineas
the set, proofs on india-paper (before letters), three
guineas.

PICKWICK.--Three vignette titles, 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-title
for "A New Piljian's Projiss, written by Mrs. Gamp, edited
by Charles Dickens," 1890 (unpublished); etched borders
containing characters and scenes from Dickens, for Mr.
William Wright, of Paris. The artist also designed six new
plates for the "Memoirs of Grimaldi," which, however, were
only edited by Dickens.

"JACOB PARALLEL."

"JACOB PARALLEL'S HANDS TO HUMPHREY'S CLOCK; or, Sketches
from the Clock Case."--Twelve etchings on steel,
illustrating "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "Barnaby Rudge."
Two parts, Impl. 8vo, green illustrated wrappers, price two
shillings each. London: G. Berger, Holywell Street, Strand,
N.D [1840-41]. A series of illustrations of the principal
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.

BARNABY RUDGE'S PORTRAIT GALLERY.--During the serial issue
of "Barnaby Rudge," Mr. W. Britain, 11 Paternoster Row,
advertised on one of the weekly wrappers (August 28, 1841) a
series of twenty "splendid engravings" by this artist, price
twopence, but I have never seen them.

THOMAS SIBSON.

"SIBSON'S RACY SKETCHES OF EXPEDITIONS, FROM THE PICKWICK
CLUB."--Ten etchings, with letterpress, demy 8vo, green
illustrated wrappers, price 2s. 6d. London: Sherwood,
Gilbert & Piper, 1838. The design on the wrapper depicts
Dickens standing on Mr. Pickwick's head, holding aloft an
enormous quill pen, the pseudonym "Boz" appearing on his
coat-sleeves." The above title is printed on the wrapper,
but on the title-page it runs thus: "Sketches of
Expeditions, from the Pickwick Club." The Preface reads as
follows: "Originally the Pickwick Club appeared with four
Illustrations: but since Death chilled the life-depicting
hand of poor Seymour, two Embellishments have disappeared,
while eight pages of letterpress have been added. These
papers, thus arranged, bursting as they do with incident,
and intoxicated as they are with wit, must have come before
the public without Illustrations for many of their most
striking scenes. Reader, were it not so, these Sketches had
never seen the light of your eyes. The artist's hope is (may
you find it not a vain one) that these humble efforts may
afford some of the pleasure he enjoyed when imagining
them.--11 Buckingham St., Portland Place, London. January
1st, 1838." A copy of this scarce work realised £18 at
Sotheby's in 1895.

"ILLUSTRATIONS OF MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK."--Seventy-two
etchings, issued during the publication of this work,
1840-41. Eighteen parts, each containing four plates, some
with _remarques_. Impl. 8vo, green wrappers, price one
shilling each part. Afterwards issued in two volumes.
London: Robert Tyas, Paternoster Row, 1842. Only seventy
plates are mentioned on the title-page and in the index. On
some of the wrappers is a vignette of a clock, and on others
we find a representation of Master Humphrey sitting on a
chair. These plates are exceedingly scarce in the original
parts as issued, sets having been catalogued at twenty-five
guineas. Copies of some of the Sibson designs were etched by
J. Yeager for contemporary publication in a Philadelphia
edition of "Barnaby Rudge," together with similar _replicas_
of a few of "Phiz's" woodcuts which appeared in the
authorised English edition.

F. STONE, A.R.A.

NICHOLAS NICKLEBY.--"Three Portraits of Kate Nickleby,
'Tilda Price, and Madeline Bray, from original paintings by
Frank Stone, engraved [on steel] by Edward Finden, and
published with the approbation of Mr. Charles Dickens." For
the first Cheap Edition of "Nicholas Nickleby." Crown 8vo,
green wrappers, price one shilling. Proofs on india-paper,
4to, one shilling each portrait. London: Chapman & Hall,
186 Strand, 1848. The engraved titles are as follow: "Kate
Nickleby sitting for her Portrait," "'Tilda Price dressing
for the Tea Party," and "Madeline Bray pausing in her Work."
(_See pp. 178-9_).

"STYLUS."

"THE DICKENS AQUARELLES. FIRST SERIES."--"Twelve Original
Character Illustrations of the Pickwick Papers." Portfolio,
illustrated boards. New York. J. W. Bouton, 1152 and 706
Broadway, 1888.

"THE DICKENS AQUARELLES. SECOND SERIES."--"Twelve Original
Character Illustrations of 'The Old Curiosity Shop.'"
Portfolio, illustrated boards. Same publisher and date.
These inferior drawings are crudely coloured by hand, the
name of each Character being written in the margin.

WELD TAYLOR.

NICHOLAS NICKLEBY.--"The Baron von Grogzwig." Lithograph,
Impl. 8vo. "Sketches by Weld Taylor, No. 1." London: J.
Mitchell, 33 Old Bond Street, N.D. In 1838 Weld Taylor
reproduced by lithography the beautiful portrait of "Boz" by
S. Laurence.