Research Catalog

Title

Master Humphrey's clock / by "Boz" ; with illustrations by G. Cattermole and H.K. Browne.

Author

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Publication

London : Chapman and Hall, 1840-1841.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cattermole, George, 1800-1868.
• Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882.

Description

88 parts : ill.; 22.3 cm.

Alternative Title

• Old curiosity shop.
• Barnaby Rudge.

Subject

• Gordon Riots, 1780 > Fiction
• England > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction
• Great Britain > History > 18th century > Fiction

Note

• In original weekly parts. Published from April 4, 1840, to Nov. 27, 1841.
• Nos. 4-45 include the Old Curiosity Shop. Nos. 46-88 include Barnaby Rudge.
• Unbound as issued; t.p. and preliminaries for Vol. I in part 26, for Vol. II in part 52, and for Vol III. in part 88. The initial and final leaves of each gathering serve as wrappers; white paper; printed in black.
• Issued weekly, in white wrappers; issued also every fourth or fifth week in a single part (same sheets?), bearing green wrappers otherwise identical to the weekly wrappers, the novel comprising 20 monthly parts.
• Front wrappers bear ornate woodcut design featuring clocks, intricately convoluted tendrils, female sylphs and goddesses, and several male mythological figures.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Indexed In (note)

• Podeschi, J.B. Gimbel Dickens
• Eckel (1932 ed.)
• Hatton and Cleaver

Contents

Pt. 1-45. The old curiosity shop. -- pt. 46-88. Barnaby Rudge.

Call Number

Berg Coll Dickens M37 1840

OCLC

9543555

Author

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Title

Master Humphrey's clock / by "Boz" ; with illustrations by G. Cattermole and H.K. Browne.

Imprint

London : Chapman and Hall, 1840-1841.

Indexed In:

Podeschi, J.B. Gimbel Dickens A49

Eckel (1932 ed.) p. 67-69

Hatton and Cleaver 163-182.

Access

Restricted access; request permission from holding division.

Local Note

Berg Collection copy donated by the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, March 2009.

Laid-in Berg Collection copy is book dealer typed description with penciled annotations.

Berg Collection copy in clam shell box of green cloth over boards.

Berg Collection houses 3 sets of Master Humphrey's Clock issued in 88 weekly parts, as well as 4 copies of the first edition in 3 vols., copy 1 of which bears presentation inscription and autograph note, signed, from Dickens to Mrs. Fitch.

"Joseph F. McCrindle, an art collector who amassed a trove of old master drawings and who founded and edited the Transatlantic Review to showcase young writers, died July 11 at his home in Manhattan. He was 85. His death was confirmed by John Rowe, vice president of the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, a philanthropic organization. In style and upbringing, Mr. McCrindle harked back to the philanthropists who endowed the city's cultural institutions and sometimes ran them as well. He grew up in a Fifth Avenue mansion designed by Stanford White and as a boy spent his allowance on rare books at auctions."--From N.Y. Times obituary, July 18, 2008, by William Grimes.

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Added Author

Cattermole, George, 1800-1868. Illustrator

Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882. Illustrator

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

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Barnaby Rudge.

McCrindle, Joseph F. Former owner

Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation. Donor

Added Title

Old curiosity shop.

Barnaby Rudge.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll Dickens M37 1840