signed
1937
by [Onwhyn, Thomas.] Weller, Samuel (pseud). Dickens, Charles
1937. London: E. Grattan, 1837.
8vo, engraved title and 31 other plates by Onwhyn, each with tissue guard. Original illustrated pink cloth with yellow endpapers; cloth quite soiled and bubbled, front hinge just starting, yet plates with minimal toning and foxing. A good, sound, unsophisticated copy and very scarce complete in the original cloth.
§ Thomas Onwhyn's additional illustrations for Dickens's Pickwick Papers, intended to be bound into copies of the novel and very uncommonly found as a set in wrappers or, as here, bound in cloth. Onwhyn's additional 32 illustrations were issued in eight parts, for the most part signed with the pseudonym Samuel Weller, but some bear Onwhyn's initials. Additional illustrations were published for many of Dickens's successful novels. "Whether by the same or rival publishers, extra-illustrations became part of the marketing of his works... the early sets participated in the periodicity of Dickens's monthly publications in that they were also published in monthly parts to be completed with the completion of the text; they were advertised on the wrappers and in the Advertisers" (Luisa Calé, "Dickens Extra-Illustrated: Heads and Scenes in Monthly Parts", The Yearbook of English Studies, vol. 40, nos. 1/2, 2010.) See also OCLC 28011324: "First plate has same illustration as cover, but without number of plates and price at head, without artist's pseudonym, and with a different date in imprint at foot: Decr. 9, 1837 on t.p., Novr. 30, 1837 in imprint on first plate. (Inventory #: 126394)
8vo, engraved title and 31 other plates by Onwhyn, each with tissue guard. Original illustrated pink cloth with yellow endpapers; cloth quite soiled and bubbled, front hinge just starting, yet plates with minimal toning and foxing. A good, sound, unsophisticated copy and very scarce complete in the original cloth.
§ Thomas Onwhyn's additional illustrations for Dickens's Pickwick Papers, intended to be bound into copies of the novel and very uncommonly found as a set in wrappers or, as here, bound in cloth. Onwhyn's additional 32 illustrations were issued in eight parts, for the most part signed with the pseudonym Samuel Weller, but some bear Onwhyn's initials. Additional illustrations were published for many of Dickens's successful novels. "Whether by the same or rival publishers, extra-illustrations became part of the marketing of his works... the early sets participated in the periodicity of Dickens's monthly publications in that they were also published in monthly parts to be completed with the completion of the text; they were advertised on the wrappers and in the Advertisers" (Luisa Calé, "Dickens Extra-Illustrated: Heads and Scenes in Monthly Parts", The Yearbook of English Studies, vol. 40, nos. 1/2, 2010.) See also OCLC 28011324: "First plate has same illustration as cover, but without number of plates and price at head, without artist's pseudonym, and with a different date in imprint at foot: Decr. 9, 1837 on t.p., Novr. 30, 1837 in imprint on first plate. (Inventory #: 126394)
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