Sketches by Boz.Illustrated by George Cruikshank. Second Series. One volume. (Preface dated from Furnival's Inn, 17th of December 1836.) John Macrone.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.Edited by Boz. (Eleven numbers, the last being a double number, published monthly from January to November. Issued complete in the latter month, with Dedication to Mr. Serjeant Talfourd dated from Doughty-street, 27th of September, asThe Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. By Charles Dickens.) Chapman & Hall. i.108-113;125-132. iii.343.
Oliver Twist; or the Parish Boy's Progress.By Boz. Begun inBentley's Miscellanyfor January, and continued throughout the year. Richard Bentley.
Oliver Twist.By Charles Dickens, Author of the Pickwick Papers. With Illustrations by George Cruikshank. Three volumes. (Had appeared in monthly portions, in the numbers ofBentley's Miscellanyfor 1837 and 1838, with the title ofOliver Twist; or the Parish Boy's Progress. By Boz. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. The Third Edition, with Preface dated Devonshire-terrace, March 1841, published by Messrs. Chapman & Hall.) Richard Bentley. i.121;124-126;152-164. iii.24,25;343.
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi.Edited by "Boz." Illustrated by George Cruikshank. Two volumes. (For Dickens's small share in the composition of this work, his preface to which is dated from Doughty-street, February 1838, see i.141-143.) Richard Bentley.
Sketches of Young Gentlemen.Illustrated by Phiz. Chapman & Hall. i.149.
Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.By CharlesDickens. With Illustrations by Phiz (Hablot Browne). (Nine numbers published monthly from April to December.) Chapman & Hall.
Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.(Eleven numbers, the last being a double number, published monthly from January to October. Issued complete in the latter month, with dedication to William Charles Macready.) Chapman & Hall. i.145;165-179. ii.99,100;102. iii.344.
Sketches by Boz.Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People. With forty Illustrations by George Cruikshank. (The first complete edition, issued in monthly parts uniform withPickwickandNickleby, from November 1837 to June 1839, with preface dated 15th of May 1839.) Chapman & Hall. i.121-124.
Sketches of Young Couples;with an urgent Remonstrance to the Gentlemen of England, being Bachelors or Widowers, at the present alarming crisis. By the Author of Sketches of Young Gentlemen. Illustrated by Phiz. Chapman & Hall, i.149.
Master Humphrey's Clock.By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Three volumes. (First and second volume, each 306 pp.; third, 426 pp.) For the account of this work, published in 88 weekly numbers, extending over the greater part of these two years, see i.191-203;240;281,282. In addition to occasional detached papers and a series of sketches entitledMr. Weller's Watch, occupying altogether about 90 pages of the first volume, 4 pages of the second, and 5 pages of the third, which have not yet appeared in any other collected form, this serial comprised the stories of The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge; each ultimately sold separately in a single volume, from which the pages of theClockwere detached. Chapman and Hall.
Began at p. 37 of vol. i.; resumed at intervals up to the appearance of the ninth chapter; from the ninth chapter at p. 133, continued without interruption to the close of the volume (then issued with dedication to Samuel Rogers and preface from Devonshire-terrace, dated September 1840); resumed in the second volume, and carried on to the close of the tale at p. 223. i.200-216, iii.344,345.
Introduced by brief paper from Master Humphrey (pp. 224-8), and carried to end of Chapter XII. in the closing 78 pages of volume ii., which was issued with a preface dated in March 1841. Chapter XIII. began the third volume, and the story closed with its 82nd chapter at p. 420; a closing paper from Master Humphrey (pp. 421—426) then winding up the Clock, of which the concluding volume was published with a preface dated November 1841. i.134,135;147-149;161-163;223-225;232-248.
The Pic-Nic Papersby Various Hands. Edited by Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by George Cruikshank, Phiz, &c. Three volumes. (To this Book, edited for the benefit of Mrs. Macrone, widow of his old publisher, Dickens contributed a preface and the opening story, theLamplighter.) Henry Colburn. i.124;183;240;241.
American Notes for General Circulation.By Charles Dickens. Two volumes. Chapman and Hall. ii.21-39;50.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.With Illustrations by Hablot Browne. (Begun in January, and, up to the close of the year, twelve monthly numbers published). Chapman & Hall.
A Christmas Carol in Prose.Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by John Leech. (Preface dated December 1843.) Chapman & Hall. ii.60,61;71,72;84-92.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.With Illustrations by Hablot Browne. (Eight monthly numbers issued; the last being a double number, between January and July; in which latter month the completed work was published, with dedication to Miss Burdett Coutts, and Preface dated 25th of June.) Chapman & Hall. ii.44-46;50,51;63-65;74-84;99-103. iii.345.
Evenings of a Working Man.By John Overs. With a Preface relative to the Author, by Charles Dickens. (Dedication to Doctor Elliotson, and Preface dated in June.) T. C. Newby. ii.109,110.
The Chimes:a Goblin Story of some Bells that Rang an Old Year out and a New Year in. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Maclise R.A., Stanfield R.A., Richard Doyle, and John Leech. Chapman & Hall. ii.143-147;151-157;160-162;174,175;179.
The Cricket on the Hearth.A Fairy Tale of Home. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Maclise R.A., Stanfield R.A., Edwin Landseer R.A., Richard Doyle, and John Leech. (Dedication to Lord Jeffrey dated in December 1845.) Bradbury & Evans (for the Author). ii.202-204;215;445.
Pictures from Italy.By Charles Dickens. (Published originally in theDaily Newsfrom January to March 1846, with the title of "Travelling Letters written on the Road.") Bradbury & Evans (for the Author). ii.88;105;163-167;191;219,220.
Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation.By Charles Dickens.With Illustrations by Hablot Browne. (Three monthly numbers published, from October to the close of the year.) Bradbury & Evans. (During this year Messrs. Bradbury & Evans published "for the Author," in numbers uniform with the other serials, and afterwards in a single volume,The Adventures of Oliver Twist, or the Parish Boy's Progress. By Charles Dickens. With 24 Illustrations by George Cruikshank. A new Edition, revised and corrected.).
The Battle of Life.A Love Story. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Maclise R.A., Stanfield R.A., Richard Doyle, and John Leech. (Dedicated to his "English Friends in Switzerland.") Bradbury & Evans (for the Author). ii.230;241,242;279,280;284,285;286-289;293-297;303-311.
Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son.(Twelve numbers published monthly during the year.) Bradbury & Evans.
First Cheap Issue of the Works of Charles Dickens.An Edition, printed in double columns, and issued in weekly three-halfpenny numbers. The first number, being the first ofPickwick, was issued in April 1847; and the volume containing that book, with preface dated September 1847, was published in October. New prefaces were for the most part prefixed to each story, and each volume had a frontispiece. The first series (issued by Messrs. Chapman and Hall, and closing in September 1852) comprised Pickwick, Nickleby, Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Chuzzlewit, Oliver Twist, American Notes, Sketches by Boz, and Christmas Books. The second (issued by Messrs. Bradbury & Evans, and closing in 1861) contained Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, and Little Dorrit. The third, issued by Messrs. Chapman & Hall, has since included Great Expectations (1863), Tale of Two Cities (1864), Hard Times and Pictures from Italy (1865), Uncommercial Traveller (1865), and Our Mutual Friend (1867). Among the Illustrators employed for the Frontispieces were Leslie R.A., Webster R.A.,Stanfield R.A., George Cattermole, George Cruikshank, Frank Stone A.R.A., John Leech, Marcus Stone, and Hablot Browne. See ii.326and388.
Dealings with the Firm of Dombey & Son: Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation.(Five numbers issued monthly, the last being a double number, from January to April; in which latter month the complete work was published with dedication to Lady Normanby and preface dated Devonshire-terrace, 24th of March.) Bradbury & Evans, ii.102;107;219;220;230;241;265;278;280-282;334-336;337-367. iii.345.
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain.A Fancy for Christmas Time. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Stanfield R.A., John Tenniel, Frank Stone A.R.A., and John Leech. Bradbury & Evans, ii.280;388-390;419;442-447;468.
The Personal History of David Copperfield.By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Hablot Browne. (Eight parts issued monthly from May to December.) Bradbury & Evans.
The Personal History of David Copperfield.By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Hablot Browne. (Twelve numbers issued monthly, the last being a double number, from January to November; in which latter month the completed work was published, with inscription to Mr. and Mrs. Watson of Rockingham, and preface dated October.) Bradbury & Evans. ii.102;422,423;434,435;438;447;462-466;484-487;494. iii.21-40;348,349.
Household Words.On Saturday the 30th of March in this year the weekly serial ofHousehold Wordswas begun, and was carried on uninterruptedly to the 28th of May 1859, when, its place having been meanwhile taken by the serial in thesame form still existing,Household Wordswas discontinued. ii.201-203;449-456. iii.239;490-498.
Christmas NumberofHousehold Words. CHRISTMAS. To this Dickens contributedA Christmas Tree.
Christmas NumberofHousehold Words. WHAT CHRISTMAS IS. To this Dickens contributedWhat Christmas is as we grow older.
Bleak House.By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Hablot Browne. (Ten numbers, issued monthly, from March to December.) Bradbury & Evans.
Christmas NumberofHousehold Words.Stories for Christmas.To this Dickens contributedThe Poor Relation's Story, andThe Child's Story.
Bleak House.By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Hablot Browne. (Ten numbers issued monthly, the last being a double number, from January to September, in which latter month, with dedication to his "Companions in the Guild of Literature and Art," and preface dated in August, the completed book was published.) Bradbury & Evans, ii.342;441. iii.25-29;40-54;57-59;345.
A Child's History of England.By Charles Dickens. Three vols. With frontispieces from designs by F. W. Topham. Reprinted fromHousehold Words, where it appeared between the dates of the 25th of January 1851 and the 10th of December 1853. (It was published first in a complete form with dedication to his own children in 1854.) Bradbury & Evans, iii.58.
Christmas NumberofHousehold Words.Christmas Stories.To this Dickens contributedThe School Boy's Story, andNobody's Story.
Hard Times. For these Times.By Charles Dickens. (This tale appeared in weekly portions inHousehold Words, between the dates of the 1st of April and the 12th of August 1854; in which latter month it was published complete, with inscription to Thomas Carlyle.) Bradbury & Evans, iii.65-70.
Christmas NumberofHousehold Words:The Seven Poor Travellers.To this Dickens contributed three chapters.I. In the Old City of Rochester; II. The Story of Richard Doubledick; III. The Road.iii.154.
Little Dorrit.By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Hablot Browne. The first number published in December. Bradbury & Evans.
Christmas NumberofHousehold Words.The Holly-Tree. To this Dickens contributed three branches. I.Myself; II. The Boots; III. The Bill.iii.154;415.
Little Dorrit.By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Hablot Browne. (Twelve numbers issued monthly, between January and December.) Bradbury & Evans.
Christmas NumberofHousehold Words.The Wreck Of The Golden Mary.To this Dickens contributed the leading chapter:The Wreck.iii.485.
Little Dorrit.By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Hablot Browne. (Seven numbers issued monthly, the last being a double number, from January to June, in which latter month the tale was published complete, with preface, and dedication to Clarkson Stanfield.) Bradbury & Evans, iii.72;75;96;115;154-164;276-278.
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices,inHousehold Wordsfor October. To the first part of these papers Dickens contributed all up to the top of the second column of page 316; to the second part, all up to the white line in the second column of page 340; to the third part, all except the reflections of Mr. Idle (363-5); and the whole of the fourth part. All the rest was by Mr. Wilkie Collins, iii.170-176;351.
Christmas NumberofHousehold Words.The Perils of Certain English Prisoners.To this Dickens contributed the chapters entitledThe Island of Silver-store, andThe Rafts on the River.
The First Library Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens.The first volume, with dedication to John Forster, was issued in December 1857, and the volumes appeared monthly up to the 24th, issued in November 1859. The later books and writings have been added in subsequent volumes, and an addition has also been issued with the illustrations. To the second volume of the Old Curiosity Shop, as issued in this edition, were added 31 "Reprinted Pieces" taken from Dickens's papers inHousehold Words;which have since appeared also in other collected editions. Chapman & Hall. iii.236.
Authorized French Translation of the Works of Dickens.Translations of Dickens exist in every European language; but the only version of his writings in a foreign tongue authorized by him, or for which he received anything, was undertaken in Paris. Nickleby was the first story published, and to it was prefixed an address from Dickens to the French public dated from Tavistock-house the 17th January 1857. Hachette. iii.121;125.
Christmas NumberofHousehold Words.A House to Let.To this Dickens contributed the chapter entitled "Going into Society." iii.250;260.
All the Year Round, the weekly serial which took the placeofHousehold Words. Began on the 30th of April in this year, went on uninterruptedly until Dickens's death, and is continued under the management of his son. iii.239-254;462;490-499.
A Tale of Two Cities.By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Hablot Browne. This tale was printed in weekly portions inAll the Year Round, between the dates of the 30th of April and the 26th of November 1859; appearing also concurrently in monthly numbers with illustrations, from June to December; when it was published complete with dedication to Lord John Russell, iii.243;279;353-360.
Christmas NumberofAll the Year Round.The Haunted House.To which Dickens contributed two chapters.I. The Mortals in the House. II. The Ghost in Master B's Room.iii.246.
Hunted Down.A Story in two Portions. (Written for an American newspaper, and reprinted in the numbers ofAll the Year Roundfor the 4th and the 11th of August. iii.253;279.)
The Uncommercial Traveler.By Charles Dickens. (Seventeen papers, which had appeared under this title between the dates of 28th of January and 13th of October 1860 inAll the Year Round, were published at the close of the year, in a volume, with preface dated December. A later impression was issued in 1868, as a volume of what was called the Charles Dickens Edition; when eleven fresh papers, written in the interval, were added; and promise was given, in a preface dated December 1868, of the Uncommercial Traveller's intention "to take to the road again before another winter sets in." Between that date and the autumn of 1869, when the last of his detached papers were written,All the Year Roundpublished seven "New Uncommercial Samples" which have not yet been collected. Their title's were, i. Aboard ship (which opened, on the 5th of December 1868, the New Series ofAll the Year Round); ii. A Small Star inthe East; iii. A Little Dinner in an Hour; iv. Mr. Barlow; v. On an Amateur Beat; vi. A Fly-Leaf in a Life; vii. A Plea for Total Abstinence. The date of the last was the 5th of June 1869; and on the 24th of July appeared his last piece of writing for the serial he had so long conducted, a paper entitledLandor's Life.) iii.247-252;528.
Christmas NumberofAll the Year Round.A Message from the Sea.To which Dickens contributed nearly all the first, and the whole of the second and the last chapter:The Village, the Money, and the Restitution;the two intervening chapters, though also with insertions from his hand, not being his.
Great Expectations.By Charles Dickens. Begun inAll the Year Roundon the 1st of December, and continued weekly to the close of that year.
Great Expectations.By Charles Dickens. Resumed on the 5th of January and issued in weekly portions, closing on the 3rd of August, when the complete story was published in three volumes and inscribed to Chauncy Hare Townshend. In the following year it was published in a single volume, illustrated by Mr. Marcus Stone. Chapman & Hall. iii.245;259;260(the words there used "on Great Expectations closing in June 1861" refer to the time when the Writing of it was closed: it did not close in the Publication until August, as above stated);360-369.
Christmas NumberofAll the Year Round, TOM TIDDLER'S GROUND. To which Dickens contributed three of the seven chapters.I. Picking up Soot and Cinders; II. Picking up Miss Kimmeens; III. Picking up the Tinker.iii.245.
Christmas NumberofAll the Year Round.Somebody's Luggage.To which Dickens contributed four chapters.I. His Leaving it till called for; II. His Boots; III. His Brown-paper Parcel; IV. His Wonderful End.To the chapter of His Umbrella he also contributed a portion. iii.351;370.