"Gold-embossed Cover with Four Comic Vignettes" — Volume VIII of the Household Edition for Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities" (1874) (original) (raw)

Gold-embossed Cover with Four Comic Vignettes

Fred Barnard

25.5 cm high by 19 cm wide (10 ⅛ by 7 ½ inches); pages each 25 cm by 17.5 cm (9 ¾ high by 6 ⅞ inches wide).

The four, gold-embossed figures on the green leatherette cover represent some of the late Charles Dickens's most celebrated comic characters: Mr. Pickwick, Seth Pecksniff (with the pointed tonsure), Whackford Squeers (holding the medicinal spoon), and Captain Cuttle, with the prosthetic hook: all appear on the cover of each volume of the Household Edition (1872-79).

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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• Detail of the Title-page Vignette of the Chapman and Hall Household Edition, Vol. VIII (1874)