Harry Furniss's Illustrations for Dickens's "Barnaby Rudge" (1910) (original) (raw)

Harry Furniss's eighteen-volume edition of The Charles Dickens Library (London: Educational Book Company, 1910) contains some 500 special plates (part of the total of 1200 illustrations) and two volumes of commentary. Volume 17, by J. A. Hammerton, is entitled The Dickens Picture Book: A Record of the Dickens Illustrators. The sixth volume, entitled Barnaby Rudge and Master Humphrey's Clock, represents Dickens's fourth complete novel, run serially in his own weekly periodical Master Humphrey's Clock (4 April 1840 through 4 December 1841). Furniss illustrated a few of the uncollected pieces separately as Master Humphrey's Clock; those six illustrations are included below for volume 6 of the Charles Dickens Library Edition (1910).

The final volume of the 1910 Charles Dickens Library Edition is The Dickens Companion: A Book of Anecdote and Reference. For all thirty-two illustrations in Volume VI, Barnaby Rudge, the series editor, J. A. Hammerton, has included both succinct captions and extended quotations to demonstrate the textual moment realised in each; moreover, each quotation refers to a specific page number, thereby enabling the reader to find the passage illustrated. Although each page is 12.2 by 18.4 cm (4.75 by 7.25 inches) and the caption below each in upper-case, and below that occurs a multi-line quotation in upper and lower case, each plate is effectively 14.3 cm by 9.2 cm (5.5 inches by 3.25 inches), the vertically-mounted illustrations usually being framed, and the horizontally-mounted illustrations being vignetted. Of the five chief nineteenth-century illustrated editions that preceded Furniss's 28-illustration volume in 1912, only two had long programs exclusively produced by a single artist: Sol Eytinge, Jr. (1867), and Fred Barnard (1876); however, between his Scenes and Characters from Dickens (1888) and frontispieces for the three-volume edition of 1861 Felix Octavius Carr Darley produced six full-page illustrations.

Illustration Chapter illustrated Facing Page
1. Barnaby and Grip the Raven I Frontispiece
2. The Characters in the Story - Engraved Title-page
3. Strangers at the Maypole Inn I facing p. 8
4. Barnaby finds Edward IV facing p. 33
5. The Temptation of Sim Tappertit IV facing p. 39
6. Tappertit presiding over the 'Prentice Knights VIII facing p. 64
7. Dolly Varden X facing p. 80
8. Mr. Harefield dismisses Edward XII facing p. 97
9. Barnaby and his Mother XVII facing p. 128
10. Dolly is the Bearer of a Love Letter XX facing p. 152
11. Hugh frightens Dolly Varden XXI facing p. 161
12. Hugh and his Patron XXV facing p. 192
13. Miss Hardedale XXIX facing p. 225
14. The Girl Joe left behind him XXXI facing p. 256
15. Lord George Gordon leaving the Maypole XXXVII facing p. 289
16. Meeting of the Protestant Association XXXIX facing p. 304
17. The Dressing of Varden in his Regimentals XLI facing p. 320
18. Grip performing for "A fine old Country Gentleman" XLVII facing p. 361
19. Gashford's Advice to Hugh LII facing p. 400
20. After the Raid on the Maypole Bar LV facing p. 417
21. Barnaby in Prison LVIII facing p. 448
22. Emma and Dolly Prisoners LIX facing p. 465
23. The Last Night of the Great Riots LXVIII facing p. 530
24. Emma and Dolly rescued LXXI facing p. 560
25. Lord George Gordon in the Tower LXXIII facing p. 577
26. Dennis and Hugh condemned LXVI facing p. 600
27. Joe Willet LXXVIII facing p. 608
28. "Oh, yes! Why not?" LXXIX facing p. 616

Illustrations for Uncollected Pieces from Master Humphrey's Clock

Illustration Chapter illustrated Facing Page
1. Master Humphrey's Clock Chapter I, "Master Humphrey from His Clock-side in the Chimney-Corner" facing title-page
2. The Characters in the Story - facing frontispiece
3. The Penitent's Return "First Night of the Giant Chronicles" facing p. 21
4. The Murderer has his Victim in his Net "The Clock-Case" facing p. 39
5. Mr. Pickwick examines the Clock "Mr. Pickwick's Tale" facing p. 50
6. The Blighted Hairdresser "Mr. Weller's Watch" facing p. 90

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