"Title Page" — The Diamond Edition (Vol. XII) of Dickens's "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "Reprinted Pieces" (1867)

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Title-page for Volume XII

Sol Eytinge, Jr.

1867

Wood-engraving

9.9 by 7.4 cm (3 ⅞ by 2 ⅞ inches)

Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop & Reprinted Pieces (Diamond Edition, Vol. XII)

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In anticipation of Dickens's long-awaited 1867-68 reading tour, which had been postponed by the American Civil War, the Boston publisher James T. Fields had commissioned from Sol Eytinge, Jr., ninety-six designs for wood-engravings to grace the pages of the exhaustive, sixteen-volume Diamond Edition of Dickens's works, each volume being (as the advertisement suggested) "handy" — of compact dimensions with very fine but sharp type. This twelfth volume, emblazoned with the gold-embossed diamond containing Dickens in profile, like the others in the series, was published to coincide with the start of that momentous visit to American shores. It contains thirty "reprinted pieces," essays and short stories dating from 1850 through 1856 in Dickens's weekly magazine Household Words.

The Twelve Eytinge Illustrations for The Old Curiosity Shop

1. Frontispiece, Little Nell and Her Grandfather [The Old Curiosity Shop]
2. Quilp, Mrs. Quilp, and Mrs. Jiniwin
3. Quilp's Boy
4. Kit, His Mother, Jacob, and the Baby
5. Mr. and Mrs. Garland and Whisker
6. Codlin and Short
7. The Schoolmaster
8. Mrs. Jarley
9. Sampson and Sally Brass
10. "The Single Gentleman"
11. Mr. Chuckster
12. Dick Swiveller and The Marchioness

30 Reprinted Pieces from Household Words in Vol. XII of The Diamond Edition

* denotes a piece accompanied by an illustration.

1. "The Long Voyage" * (31 Dec. 1853)
2. "The Begging–Letter Writer" (18 May 1850)
3. "A Child’s Dream of a Star" (6 April 1850)
4. "Our English Watering Place" (2 August 1851)
5. "Our French Watering-Place" (4 Nov. 1854)
6. "Bill-sticking" (22 March 1851)
7. "'Births. Mrs. Meek, of a Son'" (22 Feb. 1851)
8. "Lying Awake" (30 Oct. 1852)
9. "The Poor Relation’s Story" (Christmas 1852)
10. "The Child’s Story" (Christmas 1852)
11. "The School-boy’s Story"* (Christmas 1853)
12. "Nobody’s Story" (Christmas 1853)
13. "The Ghost of Art"* (20 July 1850)
14. "Out of Town" (29 September 1855)
15. "Out of the Season" (28 June 1856)
16. "A Poor Man’s Tale of a Patent" (19 Oct. 1850)
17. "The Noble Savage" (11 June 1853).
18. "A Flight" HW (30 August 1851)
19. "The Detective Police," I & II (27 July & 10 August 1850)
20. "Three 'Detective' Anecdotes: 1850 — "A Pair of Gloves" (Anti-Slavery Bugle, November 2, 1850), "The Artful Touch" (Xenia Torch-Light, November 28, 1850), and "The Sofa" (Xenia Torch-Light, November 28, 1850)
21. "On Duty with Inspector Field" (14 June 1851)
22. "Down with the Tide" (5 February 1853)
23. "A Walk in the Workhouse" (25 May 1850)
24. "Prince Bull. A Fairy Tale" (17 February 1855)
25. "A Plated Article" (24 April 1852)
26. "Our Honorable [sic] Friend" (31 July 1852)
27. "Our School" (11 October 1851)
28. "Our Bore"* (9 Oct. 1852)
29. "A Monument of French Folly" (8 March 1851)
30. "A Christmas Tree" (Christmas 1850).

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Dickens, Charles. The Old Curiosity Shop. Illustrated by Sol Eytinge, Jr., and A. V. S. Anthony (engraver) The Diamond Edition. 14 vols. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867. Vol. XII.

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