The Cover of the Household Edition of Charles Dickens's "Martin Chuzzlewit"

1870s

Green-and-Gold Cloth

25.7x 19 cm.

[The light green cloth binding's cover is embossed with golden figures of Mr. Pickwick (above), Pecksniff (bottom, extreme left), Uriah Heep (bottom left), and Capt. Cuttle; the spine reads in block capitals "Martin Chuzzlewit/Dickens/ Chapman & Hall."]

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham

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References

Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, with 59 illustrations by Fred Barnard. Household Edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1871-1880. The copy of the Household Edition from which this picture was scanned was the gift of George Gorniak, Editor of The Dickens Magazine, whose subject for the fifth series, beginning in January 2008, was this novel.

Last modified 1 February 2008