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 of Pickwick, 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. [326] and [388].
1848.
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].
1849.
The Personal History of David Copperfield. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Hablot Browne. (Eight parts issued monthly from May to December.) Bradbury & Evans.
1850.
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 of Household Words was begun, and was carried on uninterruptedly to the 28th of May 1859, when, its place having been meanwhile taken by the serial in the same form still existing, Household Words was discontinued. ii. [201]-[203]; [449]-[456]. iii. [239]; [490]-[498].