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    Pickwickian Manners and Customs
    Pickwickian Manners and Customs
    Pickwickian Manners and Customs
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    Pickwickian Manners and Customs

    By Percy Fitzgerald

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    Release dateSep 16, 2022
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      Pickwickian Manners and Customs - Percy Fitzgerald

      Percy Fitzgerald

      Pickwickian Manners and Customs

      EAN 8596547377443

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: [email protected]

      Table of Contents

      A MONUMENTAL PICKWICK.

      BOZ AND BOZZY.

      PICKWICKIAN ORIGINALS.

      CONCERNING THE PLATES AND EXTRA PLATES AND STATES OF PICKWICK.

      A MONUMENTAL PICKWICK.

      Table of Contents

      The fruitfulness of Pickwick, and amazing prolificness, that is one of its marvels. It is regularly worked on, like Dante or Shakespeare. The Pickwickian Library is really a wonder. It is intelligible how a work like Boswell’s Johnson, full of allusions and names of persons who have lived, spoken, and written, should give rise to explanation and commentaries; but a work of mere imagination, it would be thought, could not furnish such openings. As we have just seen, Pickwick and the other characters are so real, so artfully blended with existing usages, manners, and localities, as to become actual living things.

      Mere panegyric of one’s favourite is idle. So I lately took a really effective way of proving the surprising fertility of the work and of its power of engendering speculation and illustration. I set about collecting all that has been done, written, and drawn on the subject during these sixty years past, together with all those lighter manifestations of popularity which surely indicate the form and pressure of its influence. The result is now before me, and all but fills a small room. When set in proper order and bound, it will fill over thirty great quartos—huge armfuls as Elia has it. In short, it is a Monumental Pickwick.

      The basis of The Text is of course, the original edition of 1836. There are specimens of the titles and a few pages of every known edition; the first cheap or popular one; the Library edition; the Charles Dickens ditto; the Edition de Luxe; the Victoria: Jubilee, edited by C. Dickens the younger; editions at a shilling and at sixpence; the edition sold for one penny; the new Gadshill, edited by Andrew Lang; with the Roxburghe, edited by F. Kitton, presently to be published. The Foreign Editions in English; four American editions, two of Philadelphia, and two of New York; the Tauchnitz (German) and Baudry (French); the curious Calcutta edition; with one of the most interesting editions, viz., the one published at Launceston in Van Diemen’s Land in the year 1839, that is before the name of the Colony was changed. The publisher speaks feelingly of the enormous difficulties he had to encounter, and he boasts, with a certain pride, that it is the largest publication that has issued from either the New South Wales or the Tasmanian Press. Not only this, but the whole of the work, printing, engraving, and binding, was executed in the Colony. He had to be content with lithography for the plates, and indeed, could only manage a selection of twenty of the best. He says, too, that even in England, lithography is found a process of considerable difficulty. They are executed in a very rough and imperfect way, and not very faithfully by an artist who signs himself Tiz. The poor, but spirited publisher adds that the expense has been enormous—greater than was originally contemplated, but he comforts himself with the compliment that if any publication would repay the cost of its production, it would be the far-famed Pickwick Papers. On the whole, it is a very interesting edition to have, and I have never seen a copy save the one I possess. I have also an American edition, printed in Philadelphia, which has a great interest. It was bought there by Mrs. Charles Dickens, and presented by her to her faithful maid, Anne. I possess also a copy of the Christmas Carol given by his son, the author, to his father John. Few recall that Boz wrote a sequel to his Pickwick—a rather dismal failure—quite devoid of humour. He revived Sam and old Weller, and Mr. Pickwick, but they are unrecognizable figures. He judiciously suppressed this attempt, after making it a sort of introduction to Humphrey’s Clock. Of course, we have it here.

      Translations: Of these there are some twenty in all, but I have only the French, German, Russian, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Hungarian.

      Then come Selections: Readings from Pickwick; Dialogues from ditto; Wellerisms, by Charles Kent and Mr. Rideal.

      Dramatic Versions: The Pickwickians, Perambulations, "Sam

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