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Master Humphrey's clock

Title: Master Humphrey's clock / by Charles Dickens ; with illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne.
Author: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Publication: London : Chapman and Hall, 1840-1841

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Description

20 pts. : ill.; 27 cm.

Subject

Gordon Riots, 1780 > Fiction

Note

Each part in the original illustrated bluish green paper covers, as issued monthly, Apr. 1840-Nov. 1841. Title page, frontispiece and other preliminaries for v. 1 in pt. 6, for v. 2 in pt. 12, and for v. 3 in pt. 20. Publisher's and general advertisements on p. [2-4] of covers. Additional publisher's and general advertisements inserted in each part; for detailed description, cf. Hatton & Cleaver.
Issued concurrently in 88 weekly parts. "Every fourth or fifth week the text portion of the weekly numbers was collected and made up into a single [monthly] part"--Hatton & Cleaver.
Distributor statement (on covers of parts) names 32 agents (pt. 1), 36 agents (pt. 2), 38 agents (pts. 3-5), 40 agents (pts. 6-7), 41 agents (pts. 8-20).
Comprises chiefly 2 novels, The old curiosity shop (pt. 1, p. [37]-pt. 11, p. 223) and Barnaby Rudge (pt. 11, p. [229]-pt. 20, p. 420).
Vol. 1: iv, [1], 306 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: vi, 306 p.; v. 3: vi, 426 p.
Illustrations: 198 prints : wood engraving ; full-page (3) or smaller . Engraved by E. Landells (86), C. Gray (74), S. Williams (5) and G. Vasey (5), after designs by H.K. Browne (157), G. Cattermole (39), S. Williams (1) and D. Maclise (1). Include 25 wood-engraved historiated initials after designs by Browne. -- Additional full-page wood engraving on covers of parts, engraved by Landells after Cattermole. Cf. Hatton & Cleaver, p. 164-165.

Indexed In (note)

Carr, L. VanderPoel Dickens
Podeschi, J.B. Dickens
Eckel, J.C. First editions of Dickens (1932 ed.)
Hatton & Cleaver. Periodical works of Dickens

Call Number

Arents BIP (Dickens, C. Master 1840) 00-123

OCLC

NYPG00-B5873

Author

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Title

Master Humphrey's clock / by Charles Dickens ; with illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne.

Imprint

London : Chapman and Hall, 1840-1841 (London : Bradbury and Evans)

Indexed In:

Carr, L. VanderPoel Dickens, B148

Podeschi, J.B. Dickens, A50 (2nd copy)

Eckel, J.C. First editions of Dickens (1932 ed.), p. 67-70

Hatton & Cleaver. Periodical works of Dickens, p. 163-182

Local Note

Arents copy lacks several advertisements called for by Hatton & Cleaver: "Rippon & Burton's general ironmongery catalogue," 4 p. in pt. 1; specimen plate in pt. 6; "In weekly numbers ...," 2 p. in pt. 15.

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Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882. Illustrator

Cattermole, George, 1800-1868. Illustrator

Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870. Illustrator

Landells, Ebenezer, 1808-1860. Engraver

Gray, Charles, -1845. Engraver

Williams, Samuel, 1788-1853. Illustrator

Williams, Samuel, 1788-1853. Engraver

Vasey, George. Engraver

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Old curiosity shop. 1840-1841.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Barnaby Rudge. 1841.

Research Call Number

Arents BIP (Dickens, C. Master 1840) 00-123

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