Right: The frontispiece of Charles Dickens, AET. 27 from a painting by Daniel Maclise and engraved by R. Graves, R. A., for the twenty-second and final volume of The Household Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens: in 1839, with several massive successes behind him, the fashionably dressed young writer seems to be musing about what lies ahead in John Forster's Life of Charles Dickens (1879). Composite woodblock engraving, 12 by 9.4 cm (4 ⅞ by 3 ¾ inches) vignetted. This is the only Household Edition not by Dickens himself, as both the title page and the gilt- and green-embossed cover (left) proclaim. [Click on the images to enlarge them.]
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Bibliography
Ackroyd, Peter. Dickens: A Biography. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1990.
Barnard, Fred, et al. Scenes and Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens; being eight hundred and sixty-six drawings by Fred Barnard, Hablot K. Browne (Phiz), J. Mahoney [and others] printed from the original woodblocks engraved for "The Household Edition." London: Chapman & Hall, 1908. Pp. 561-584.
Forster, John. The Life of Charles Dickens. London: Chapman & Hall, 1872 and 1874. 3 vols.
Forster, John. The Life of Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Fred Barnard. The Household Edition. 22 vols. London: Chapman & Hall, 1879. Vol. XXII.
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