Chapter I: Front Matter

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BEING AN ACCOUNT OF CERTAIN MATTERS PECULIARLY ALLURING TO THE COLLECTOR

BY GEORGE SOMES LAYARD

LONDON ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK 1907

_Published November 1907_

I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO MY TWO BOYS JOHN AND PETER WHO I SINCERELY HOPE, WILL NOT HAVE SO MANY _USELESS_ HOBBIES AS THEIR AFFECTIONATE FATHER

CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTORY . . . 1

2. “THE MARQUIS OF STEYNE” . . . 7

3. THE SUPPRESSED PORTRAIT OF DICKENS, “PICKWICK,” “THE BATTLE OF LIFE,” AND “GRIMALDI” . . . 26

4. DICKENS CANCELLED PLATES: “OLIVER TWIST,” “MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT,” “THE STRANGE GENTLEMAN,” “PICTURES FROM ITALY,” AND “SKETCHES BY BOZ” . . . 43

5. ON SOME FURTHER SUPPRESSED PLATES, ETCHINGS, AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK . . . 59

6. HOGARTH’S “ENTHUSIASM DELINEATED,” “THE MAN OF TASTE,” AND “DON QUIXOTE” . . . 82

7. CANCELLED DESIGNS FOR “PUNCH” AND “ONCE A WEEK” BY CHARLES KEENE AND FREDERICK SANDYS . . . 127

8. MISCELLANEOUS . . . 149

9. THE SUPPRESSED OMAR KHAYYAM ETCHING . . . 179

10. ADAPTED OR PALIMPSEST PLATES . . . 192

11. ADAPTED OR PALIMPSEST PLATES (_continued_) . . . 226

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

_Printed Separately_

The Title-page of the unwritten “Death in London” . . . _Frontispiece_

The Third Marquis of Hertford. (_From the engraving by W. Holl, of
the painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence_) . . . _Between pages_ 20
_and_ 21

The Fourth Marquis of Hertford. (_From a photograph_)
. . . _Between pages_ 20 _and_ 21

The Third Marquis of Hertford when Lord Yarmouth. (_From the coloured
caricature by Richard Dighton_) . . . _Facing page_ 24

The suppressed portrait of Charles Dickens . . . _Facing page_ 28

The “Pickwick” suppressed plate: “The Cricket Match.” (_By R. W.
Buss_) . . . _Facing page_ 30

The “Pickwick” suppressed plate: “Tupman and Rachel.” (_By R. W.
Buss_) . . . _Between pages_ 32 _and_ 33

“Tupman and Rachel.” (_By H. K. Browne_) . . . _Between pages_ 32
_and_ 33

“The Last Song,” with the suppressed border (_By George Cruikshank_)
. . . _Facing page_ 40

The suppressed plate from “Oliver Twist” . . . _Facing page_ 48
1. “The Fireside Scene”
2. “The Fireside Scene,” as worked upon by Cruikshank

The suppressed plate from “Sketches by Boz” . . . _Facing page_ 56

“A Financial Survey of Cumberland or the Beggar’s Petition.” (_From
the only known uncoloured impression of the plate_) . . . _Between
pages_ 64 _and_ 65

“A Financial Survey of Cumberland or the Beggar’s Petition.” (_From
a coloured impression of the plate, with the figure of the valet
obliterated with lamp-black_) . . . _Between pages_ 64 _and_ 65

“Enthusiasm Delineated. (Humbly dedicated to his Grace the Arch Bishop
of Canterbury by his Graces most obedient humble Servant _Wm.
Hogarth_”) . . . _Between pages_ 88 _and_ 89

“Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism. A Medley” . . . _Between
pages_ 88 _and_ 89

Portrait of Hogarth with his Dog Trump . . . _Facing page_ 112

_The plate reversed and in its last state, now entitled_ “The Bruiser”
. . . _Facing page_ 112

The Cancelled Cartoon. (_By Charles Keene_) . . . _Facing page_ 128

The Cancelled “Social.” (_By Charles Keene_) . . . _Facing page_ 136

Suggestion by Joseph Crawhall for the Cancelled “Social” . . . _Facing
page_ 136

“The Painted Chamber.” (From _Antiquities of Westminster_, 1807)
. . . _Facing page_ 150

The suppressed portrait of “John Jorrocks, Esq., M.F.H., etc.” (_By
Henry Alken, the younger_) . . . _Facing page_ 160

The suppressed frontispiece for “Omar Khayyam.” (_By Edwin Edwards_)
. . . _Facing page_ 188

“L’Europe alarmée pour le Fils d’un Meunier.” (_The plate in its first
state_) . . . _Between pages_ 204 _and_ 205

_The plate in its second state, now entitled_ “La Cour de Paix
solitaire, entre les Roses piquantes et les Lis” . . . _Between
pages_ 204 _and_ 205

Queen Anne presiding over the House of Lords. (_The plate in its first
state_) . . . _Between pages_ 236 _and_ 237

_The plate in its second state, now representing_ George I. presiding
over the House of Lords . . . _Between pages_ 236 _and_ 237

“The Races of the Europeans, with their Keys.” (_The plate in its
first state_) . . . _Between pages_ 238 _and_ 239

“A Skit on Britain.” (_The plate in its second state_) . . . _Between
pages_ 238 _and_ 239

The Headless Horseman. (_The plate with the head burnished out_)
. . . _Facing page_ 240

The plate with Cromwell’s head . . . _Between pages_ 242 _and_ 243

The plate with Charles I.’s head . . . _Between pages_ 242 _and_ 243

Undescribed palimpsest plate. (_First state and second state_)
. . . _Facing page_ 244

Undescribed palimpsest plate. (_First state and second state_)
. . . _Facing page_ 246

_Printed in the Text_

1. The Suppressed Portrait of the Marquis of Steyne . . . 15

2. The Battle of Life. “Leech’s Grave Mistake” . . . 35

3. Rose Maylie and Oliver at Agnes’s Tomb. (_The substituted plate in
two states_) . . . 51

4. The Strange Gentleman . . . 55

5. “A Trifling Mistake”—Corrected— . . . 71

6. Philoprogenitiveness . . . 77

7. “Drop it!” . . . 79

8. Enlarged detail of Hogarth’s “Enthusiasm Delineated” . . . 85

9. The Chandelier in “Enthusiasm” . . . 95

The Chandelier in “Credulity” . . . 95

10. The Man of Taste . . . 105

11. Burlington Gate as it appeared prior to 1868 . . . 109

12. Don Quixote, No. 1.—The Innkeeper . . . 115

13. Don Quixote, No. 2.—The Funeral of Chrysostom . . . 117

14. Don Quixote, No. 3.—The Innkeeper’s Wife and Daughter . . . 119

15. Don Quixote, No. 4.—Don Quixote seizes the Barber’s Basin
. . . 120

16. Don Quixote, No. 5.—Don Quixote releases the Galley Slaves
. . . 122

17. Don Quixote, No. 6.—The First Interview . . . 123

18. Don Quixote, No. 7.—The Curate and the Barber . . . 125

19. Danaë in the Brazen Chamber . . . 143

20. Suppressed Illustration from _The Vicar of Wakefield_ . . . 172

21. Het beest van Babel, etc. (_The plate in its first state_)
. . . 218

22. Het beest van Babel, etc. (_The plate in its second state_)
. . . 219

23. Aan der Meester Tonge-Slyper. (_The plate in its first state_)
. . . 229

Aan der Meester Tonge-Slyper. (_As adapted by the Anti-Jesuits_)
. . . 229

24. The Stature of a Great Man, or the English Colossus . . . 234

25. The Stature of a Great Man, or the Scotch Colossus . . . 235

26. Aan den Experten Hollandschen Hoofd-Smith. (_The plate in its
first state_) . . . 245

27. Aan den Experten Hollandschen Hoofd-Smith. (_As adapted by the
Anti-Jesuits_) . . . 245

28. An adapted Copperplate. (_First state_) . . . 247

29. An adapted Copperplate. (_Second state_) . . . 247

30. A History of the New Plot. (_First state_) . . . 249

31. A History of the New Plot. (_Second state_) . . . 249

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