Suppressed Plates, Wood-engravings, &c. Together with Other Curiosities Germane Thereto; Being an Account of Certain Matters Peculiarly Alluring to the Collector

No one who has the itch for book-collecting will deny that suppressed book illustrations are, what the forbidden fruit was to our mother Eve, irresistible. Whether such appetite...

Perhaps the most celebrated of suppressed book illustrations is the wood-engraved portrait of the “Marquis of Steyne,” drawn by Thackeray as an illustration to _Vanity Fair_, fo...

Having dealt in the last chapter with the suppression of the well-known Thackeray wood-cut of the “Marquis of Steyne,” we naturally turn next in order to the other great Victori...

In dealing with the episode of the suppressed plate in _Oliver Twist_ we must be careful to bear in mind the fact that between the publication of _Pickwick_ and the later novel...

In Chapter III. we have incidentally considered the suppressed grotesque border to the etching of “The Last Song” by George Cruikshank in the _Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi_. In th...

In Mr. Austin Dobson’s _Hogarth_, to which all students of that master are so deeply indebted, the following sentence concludes the list of “Prints of an Uncertain Date”: “It ha...

In the present chapter I propose to deal with three masterly drawings prepared for the publications of Messrs. Bradbury and Evans (the predecessors of Messrs. Bradbury and Agnew...

I propose in this chapter to group together certain sporadic suppressions in lithography, etching, wood-engraving, and process work. They are not sufficiently important each to...

When the iconography of Edward FitzGerald’s _Ruba’iyat of Omar Khayyam_ comes to be compiled, there will be one item which will be found to be well-nigh unattainable by the enth...

“God bless the King, I mean the faith’s defender, God bless—no harm in blessing—the Pretender. Who that Pretender is, and who is King— God bless us all!—that’s quite another thi...

In the last chapter I claim to have introduced the reader to a phase of print-collecting which has in it a sporting element of a peculiarly enticing character. The pursuit of wh...