Twenty-one Illustrations for Great Expectations (1885)

These illustrations, reproduced courtesy of the Dickens Museum, London, are extracted from the Robson & Kerslake edition published at 23 Coventry Street, Haymarket, London, in 1885, and the Franklin Library edition containing Pailthorpe's seventeen hand-tinted engravings (1979).

Other Artists’ Illustrations for Dickens's Great Expectations

Twenty-one Illustrations for Oliver Twist (1886)

These illustrations Oliver Twist, reproduced courtesy of the Calinescu Collection, Toronto, come from the Robson and Kerslake edition published at 23 Coventry Street, Haymarket, London, in 1886. The twenty-one coloured illustrations are keyed to the pagination in the 1838 three-volume edition (London: Richard Bentley). These illustrations constitute one of fifty coloured sets issued; this set, no. 118.

Other illustrators of Oliver Twist

Bibliography

Dickens, Charles. The Adventures of Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. London: Richard Bentley, 1838. 3 vols.

_____.  Great Expectations. Illustrated by Frederic W. Pailthorpe with 17 hand-tinted water-colour engravings reproduced as lithographs. The Franklin Library. Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: 1979. Based on the Robson and Kerslake (London) edition, 1885.

______. Great Expectations. Volume 19 of the Edition de Grande Luxe. Ed. Richard Garnett. London: Merrill and Baker, 1900.


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