The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-12 00:00:00

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Thirty Years ago " PicKwicK," as a
work, was published. And thirty years ng:f its
should no more have dreamt of the possibility
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being purchaseable at the " ridiculously !ase„ble
amount" at which it is actually now purch hoave
in this exquisite edition, than we should diy
credited the possibility of pearls-of-price or 1, ia
monds-of-the-purest-water being purchases The
open market for three and sixpence each' the
Charles Dickens Edition—in other words' ries
Autographic Edition of the Writings of (13 the
Dickens—is not simply, in our opinion, 010
edition among all the various editions that 00g
now been issued of his works, including 3111 the
these the People's Edition, the Library
Cheap Edition, and the Original Edition ! tog,
Library and the Original Editions contain ~.0
each of them, all the well-known illustraf'buers
accompanying the green-leaved monthly nil° „i!
when the books were first issued in their serial fercg
The Cheap and the People's Editions contai°l.9g
none of those illustrations ! It is to our thinicloa
the very model of an author's favourite edition, 3 0,
one worthy of claiming collectively for its own
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curate definition all those distinctive titles dis:be
buted among the others ! This present issue of
es
works of our Great Novelist, besides being the Cll leg
Dickens Edition—being, in point of fact, ne'er
the People's Edition--being intrinsically ele3:01
than the Cheap Edition —being quite as worth is
any library as the Library Edition—and beinb'se-
its character as a now edition, intensely and °so.
tially an Original Edition. Within a solid, seed
stantial binding (a binding with thoroughly area
wear in it)—a volume extending to five lialijoted
and odd pages of clear and beautiful type, Pi,rie of
on excellent paper—gives us intact the %re'
The Pickwick Papers, or, to be mere; of
cise, the whole of " The Posthumous Papercoer
the Pickwick Club"—the letterpress in this jo
• 12ed
pact and beautiful edition being embelhs
eight of the most characteristic illustvd3 etch.
selected (as such) out of the whole forty-ed
sell
ings by Phis and Seymour. How adrairabire'
selected, all well-informed Pickwickians
ft h
w coo'
upon the instant immediately on thell-ser
meration. First—as the frontispiece--there is
mour's memorable drawing of The Club, vri obi°
Mr. Dickens himself, in his Preface, speaks ¢& ooci
(Seymour's) happy portrait of its found
e' Tops
not only Mr. Pickwick's portrait, but 11° c 4
costae,
man's, " the two susceptible Tupman's ,
of thel.,
Snodgrass's, and Nathaniel Winkle's--e3clint tai°
quite as happily sketched as " that gre'iss, th,e,
with the little black gaiters and the sPeet4ctights, t
bald head and the shorts—that " angel hides the
as Sam Weller calls him ! There are, too, be' etbe'd
inimitable etching as the frontispiece---eveediafe%
such etchings as those we shall now i5l/11-reller,
enumerate, by Hablot Browne s3°l the i,,/1-1
first introduction to Mr. Pickwick luoreug:h3
yard of the old 'White Hart in the doot of
Mr. Pickwick hiding behind the garde rieloi-is
Young Ladies' Boarding School ! ecensc
sliding on the ice, at Din ;ley Dell !
court during the great trial of Barden v• oat rick~v~,ri.
Mr. Pickwick recognising Jingle in the Pell °,3;
oil
son ! Old Weller and Sam with SolonlenaNirJ sier f
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the Coachmen ! Not forgetting Bob the so
Sam Weller's hat) eating sandwiches en 3 glOri°ea
Mr. Pickwick's post-chaise ! Altogether stamp
stampedition of " Pickwick"—a book tl3atiolorist.
Charles Dickens at once as our Master-P•

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Pickleg.* The "Charles Dickens"' Edition.
vol. Pp. 505. Chapman and Hall

S,OCOORYSTAL PA
day, the 20th. Conductor—Mr.LAeE. l Cii
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voices, held on May-di will be leated on Will
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A GENTLE-IkN
be a specialand, in addition to the ,
therewillshilling day ;
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.c3hioartrail: ''.,/,ol3l)ciieris
Gbe several other attractions. nS. tafP!
evening,e aais Mrl'HudGsoOnß,EaDn oßlid-eilyl3tgjelnLtieTntiani: rod, Do
sirdedelenly left
bull at the moment a
Tue-brook,' a boy who was driving a bull along t, Ole
Ityhteisanpiamss.ing along jest Derbliire:ll., e::
papleatio.egdopienrtfeocatinyacidujtiteete,abtut otala_e:d
catching sight of Mr. Hudson. it began to bellOw tue
rushed at him, striking him with one of It be
no°
.leg,in and knocked him down. It then ran at him °' ",e 00,
andtie,t as he lay on the ground, breaking several of 1115,0 it
gentle:ay:llos
reading on the head of the unfortunate
ofinflicted a severe calp wound. Mr. Hudson, in tii9v his,
this fearful and exciting scene, managed to preset' 95
ei
presenceth of mind, and by staring resolutely in .he eii,,c'llic!
e infuriated beast, succeeded in arresting further aci— lea
huntil it was driven off. Mr. Hudson was LA once cone}
ome. and attended by Dr. Dyth, of Breck-road, and ,•Y r 010
, in spite of his numerous and serious injuries a'
progressing satisfactorily.--Live pool .dibion.