Research Catalog

Title

Bleak House / by Charles Dickens ; with illustrations by H.K. Browne.

Author

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Publication

London : Bradbury and Evans, [1852]-1853.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882.
• Green, W. T., active 1837-1872.

Description

20 pts. in 19 (xvi, 624 p., [40] leaves of plates) : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Great Britain. Court of Chancery > Fiction
• Illegitimate children > Great Britain > Fiction
• Guardian and ward > Great Britain > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Drawings.
• Watercolors.

Note

• Each part (no.) in the original illustrated pale blue paper covers, as issued monthly, Mar. 1852-Sept. 1853 (the last a double no.). Title page and other preliminaries in pt. 19/20. General advertisements on p. [2-4] of covers of parts. "Bleak House advertiser" and other publisher's and general advertisements inserted in each part; for detailed description, cf. Hatton & Cleaver. Each part contains 2 plates, except 1 in pt. 9 and 3 in pt. 10; pt. 9 has slip inserted explaining this.
• Added engraved t.p.
• Page no. on p. 230 correctly printed (cf. Podeschi).
• Illustrations: 40 prints (incl. added t.p.) : steel etching ; full-page. Designed and etched by H.K. Browne. For detailed discussion, cf. Victorian novelists and their illustrators / J.R. Harvey. 1970. p. 151-157. -- 1 print : wood engraving ; full-page. By W.T. Green after Browne. On covers of pts.
• Errata: p. xvi.

Indexed In (note)

• Carr, C. VanderPoel Dickens
• Podeschi, J.B. Dickens
• Eckel, J.C. First editions of Dickens
• Hatton & Cleaver. Periodical works of Dickens
• Johannsen, A. Phiz: illustrations from the novels of Dickens

Call Number

8-NCW (Dickens, C. Bleak House. 1853. London)

LCCN

06036371

OCLC

• 38689984
• 7246136
• NYPGR7246136-B

Author

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Title

Bleak House / by Charles Dickens ; with illustrations by H.K. Browne.

Imprint

London : Bradbury and Evans, [1852]-1853.

Indexed In:

Carr, C. VanderPoel Dickens, B236

Podeschi, J.B. Dickens, A130.

Eckel, J.C. First editions of Dickens, p. 78-81

Hatton & Cleaver. Periodical works of Dickens, p. 275-304

Johannsen, A. Phiz: illustrations from the novels of Dickens, p. 397-415

Local Note

Arents copy lacks several advertisements called for by Hatton & Cleaver: W. Mott, 2 p. in pt. 1; Waterlow & Sons, 4 p. in pt. 3; "Crochet cotton," slip in pt. 10; "Household words," slip in pt. 12; W. & A.K. Johnston, 2 p. in pt. 14; "Grace Aguilar's works," 8 p. in pt. 16.

Ten plates were etched in duplicate. According to points given by Johannsen, Arents copy contains the following: 24A, 26A, 28A, 29A, 32B, 34A, 36B, 37A, 38A, frontispiece B; copy in 8-NCW contains the following: 24B, 26B, 28A, 29B, 32A, 34A, 36A, 37A, 38A, frontispiece B.

Copy in 8-NCW: Extra-illustrated with 15 original water colors by Kyd.

Copy in 8-NCW: Bound in 2 v. in green (faded to brown) crushed levant morocco, gilt, by W. Root & Son. Original covers and advertisements bound in at end of each vol. "Bleak House advertiser" wanting in pts. 3-4; first 4 p. of "Bleak House advertiser" wanting in pts. 11 and 16. Harkness Bequest; with armorial bookplate of Mary Stillman Harkness.

Added Author

Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882.

Green, W. T., active 1837-1872.

Kyd, 1856 or 7-1937.

Research Call Number

8-NCW (Dickens, C. Bleak House. 1853. London)

Arents BIP (Dickens, C. Bleak 1853) 99-230