Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Publication

London : Bradbury and Evans, 1853.

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Details

Additional Authors

Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882.

Description

xvi, 624 p., [40] leaves of plates : ill.; 22 cm.

Subjects

• Guardian and ward > Great Britain > Fiction
• Illegitimate children > Great Britain > Fiction
• Great Britain > Court of Chancery > Fiction
• Egg, Augustus Leopold, > 1816-1863 > Provenance
• Kern, Jerome, > 1885-1945 > Provenance
• Baskerville, Gertrude A. E > Provenance

Note

• Added engraved t.p.
• Originally published in 20 parts in 19, Mar. 1852-Sept. 1853.
• 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.
• Errata: p. xvi.

Access (note)

• Berg Collection copy restricted access ;

Indexed In (note)

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

Call Number

Arents BIP/AL (Dickens, C. Bleak House 1853) 99-228

OCLC

144841034

Author

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Title

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

Imprint

London : Bradbury and Evans, 1853.

Indexed In:

Carr, C. VanderPoel Dickens, B237

Podeschi, J.B. Dickens, A131

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

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

Access

Berg Collection copy restricted access ; request permission in holding division.

Local Note

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

Binding: Contemporary half red morocco and marbled paper boards; all edges gilt. The Vanderpoel copy, a presentation copy in a similar binding, is "apparently ... one of a few copies specially bound for Dickens"--Carr.

Author's presentation copy, inscribed on dedication leaf to Augustus Egg, Oct. 3, 1853.

Provenance: Gertrude A.E. Baskerville (inscribed on free front endpaper from G.A.E. Baskerville to her sister Clarie, Dec. 1863); Jerome Kern (bookplate).

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Local Subject

Egg, Augustus Leopold, 1816-1863 Provenance.

Baskerville, Gertrude A. E. Provenance.

Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945 Provenance.

Added Author

Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882.

Research Call Number

Arents BIP/AL (Dickens, C. Bleak House 1853) 99-228

Berg Coll Dickens B54 1853