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Auction archive: Lot number 59

DICKENS, CHARLES]. BROWNE, HABLOT K. ("Phiz"). Original pen-and-ink drawing/design for the front wrapper of Part 1 of the monthly parts issue of the Household Edition of The Works of...Dickens , published in London by Chapman & Hall in 101 parts from...

Auction 02.12.1994
2 Dec 1994
Estimate
US$800 - US$1,000
Price realised:
US$1,495
Auction archive: Lot number 59

DICKENS, CHARLES]. BROWNE, HABLOT K. ("Phiz"). Original pen-and-ink drawing/design for the front wrapper of Part 1 of the monthly parts issue of the Household Edition of The Works of...Dickens , published in London by Chapman & Hall in 101 parts from...

Auction 02.12.1994
2 Dec 1994
Estimate
US$800 - US$1,000
Price realised:
US$1,495
Beschreibung:

DICKENS, CHARLES]. BROWNE, HABLOT K. ("Phiz"). Original pen-and-ink drawing/design for the front wrapper of Part 1 of the monthly parts issue of the Household Edition of The Works of...Dickens , published in London by Chapman & Hall in 101 parts from July 1871 to January 1880, 9½ x 6¾in, 240 x 170mm., on green paper, a few small spots, signed "Phiz," tipped to a copy of Dickens's The Uncommercial Traveller , London: Chapman and Hall, [ca. 1877], 4to, original pictorial green cloth, a volume in the Household Edition, with 26 illustrations by Edward Gurden Dalziel The Hablot K. Browne drawing, showing various Dickens characters plus the lettering within a rustic border, was probably a trial design for the monthly parts issue. Laid in is a 1953 letter from Laurie E Deval of Elkin Mathews to a E.M. Cockburn, who had just purchased the drawing from them: "...Kitton's Charles Dickens and his Illustrators includes the wrapper for the Household Edition, used in an adapted from as a title for the book. Curiously enough although this wrapper is clearly based on the drawing by Phiz which you now possess, the block was made from a revised design made by Gorden Thomson and no acknowledgement of Phiz's part in it appears..." Also laid in is a reproduction of the drawing from an Elkin Matthews catalogue on which Deval and Cockburn have identified the characters.

Auction archive: Lot number 59
Auction:
Datum:
2 Dec 1994
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
Beschreibung:

DICKENS, CHARLES]. BROWNE, HABLOT K. ("Phiz"). Original pen-and-ink drawing/design for the front wrapper of Part 1 of the monthly parts issue of the Household Edition of The Works of...Dickens , published in London by Chapman & Hall in 101 parts from July 1871 to January 1880, 9½ x 6¾in, 240 x 170mm., on green paper, a few small spots, signed "Phiz," tipped to a copy of Dickens's The Uncommercial Traveller , London: Chapman and Hall, [ca. 1877], 4to, original pictorial green cloth, a volume in the Household Edition, with 26 illustrations by Edward Gurden Dalziel The Hablot K. Browne drawing, showing various Dickens characters plus the lettering within a rustic border, was probably a trial design for the monthly parts issue. Laid in is a 1953 letter from Laurie E Deval of Elkin Mathews to a E.M. Cockburn, who had just purchased the drawing from them: "...Kitton's Charles Dickens and his Illustrators includes the wrapper for the Household Edition, used in an adapted from as a title for the book. Curiously enough although this wrapper is clearly based on the drawing by Phiz which you now possess, the block was made from a revised design made by Gorden Thomson and no acknowledgement of Phiz's part in it appears..." Also laid in is a reproduction of the drawing from an Elkin Matthews catalogue on which Deval and Cockburn have identified the characters.

Auction archive: Lot number 59
Auction:
Datum:
2 Dec 1994
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
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