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

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Thirty Years ago' PicKwici," as a completed
work, was published. And thirty years ag° f
I tes
should no more have dreamt of the possibility on
being purchaseable at the " ridiculously stall
amount" at which it is actually now purchase°
in this exquisite edition, than we should 123/8
credited the
possibility
of pearls-of-price or dia-
monds-of-the-purest-water being purchaseable
lie
open market for three and sixpence each.
Charles Dickens Edition—in other words, t'"
Autographic Edition of the Writings of Charles
Dickens—is not simply, in our opinion, I";
edition among all the various editions that ll°
now been issued of his works, including arn°°o
g
these the People's Edition, the Library Edition, the
Cheap Edition, and the Original Edition ! 111
Library and the Original Editions containing,
each of them, all the well-known illustrations
accompanying the green-leaved monthly numbers
when the books were first issued in their serial form •
The Cheap and the People's Editions containing
none of those illustrations ! It is to our thinking
the very model of an author's favourite edition, sea
one worthy of claiming collectively for its own an"
curate definition all those distinctive titles distri-
buted among the others ! This present issue of the
works of our Great Novelist, besides being the Charles
Dickens Edition—being, in point of fact, no less
the People's Edition—being intrinsically cheaPel;
than the Cheap Edition —being quite as worthy 61.1
any library as the Library Edition—and being, i°
its character as a now edition, intensely and essol.l:
tially an Original Edition. Within a solid, snDa
stantial binding (a binding with thoroughly Veea
wear in it)—a volume extending to five 1211/Idr td
and odd pages of clear and beautiful type, Prin—of
on excellent paper—gives us intact the whole
a,
The Pickwick Papers, or, to be more prof
vise, the whole of " Tho Posthumous Papers
the Pickwick Club"—the letterpress in this co
pact and beautiful edition being embellished ovi,
eight of the most characteristic illustratio,
selected as such) out of the whole forty-odd et:
ings by Phis and Seymour. How ell
selected, all well-informed Pickwickians wilti,
cognise upon the instant immediately on their
meration. First—as the frontispiece--there le
what
mour's memorable drawing of The Club, with his
Mr. Dickens himself, in his Preface, speaks °f and
(Seymour's) happy portrait of its founder, fop,
not only Mr. Pickwick's portrait, but Traci ostet
man's, "the two susceptible Tupinan's”, Althea/
Snodgrass's, and Nathaniel Winkle's—each ,0
quite as happily sketched as " that great the
with the little black gaiters and the speetael°Ats,''
l ill. 10; that
bald head and the shorts—that 66 ange
as Sam Weller calls him ! There are, too, hes' other
inimitable etching as the frontispiece--envelidiatelf
such etchings as those we shall now inlin/evoiler's
enumerate, by Hablot Browne Sam +h ins
first introduction to Mr. Pickwick in "-eugh ,
yard of the old White Hart in the Per de°
Mr. Pickwick hiding behind the garden elnfjeloyielg
s
Young Ladies' Boarding School ! Mr. l'ecoe
sliding on the ice at Dingley Doll ! rr".eiosicir
court during the great trial of Bardell v J:7,lleet fri'
Mr. Pickwick recognising Jingle in the
son ! Old Weller and Sam with Solomon -I__
top ot
er
the Coachmen ! Not forgetting Bob Sa
t.
Sam Weller's hat) eating sandwiches on tPlorietis
weJ
Mr. Pickwick's post-chaise ! - Altogether a opea
edition of " Pickwick"—a book that
_,,,%riat.
Charles Dickens at once as our Master-01'
Die
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* The "Charles Dickens'" Edition. r'e--1
vol. 50" Chapman anti Wall.a• Of
coso,
CRYSTAL PALACE.-- 110 great choral
.0
5,000 voices, hold ou May-day, will be repeaten°Dis
day, the 20th. Conductor--Mr. G. W. Martin.t.
_'oooo
be a special shilling day ; and, in addition to
the
there will be several other attractions. sataro.lo
A GENTLEMAN GORED BY A BULL. °liresidi°s
evening, as Mr. Hudson, an elderly gentleman'
road, nola
Breck-road, was passing along West Dorb.Y..., tue
Tue-brook, a boy who was driving a bull alnu,b4.l.
suddenly left the animal to go into an adjacent.. nvotidtleilijd
bull at the moment appeared perfectly quiet,. "bows, the
catching sight of Mr. Hudson it began t°
horns °ll
rushed at him, striking him with one of its
gcol,
leg, and knocked him down. It then ran atln. Tof his ri Sit
time, as he lay on the ground, breaking sev° 3eutlol3°l).o
and treading on the head of the 1111fOrtlillato ,h 0 intio
presnrtie.
of this fearful and exciting scene,
managed]
the eYe'',,joef
inflicted a severe scalp wound. .
presence of mind, and by staring rt,solu_e label.ya inisci"eci
the infuriated beast, succeeded in arresting
n„ 004 r
until t was driven off. Mr. Hudson was at od, a
homeland attended by Dr. Dyth, of Bre.ck-sroaa.a t"
day, in spite of his numerous end serioll.i.cini,
progressing; satisfactorily.—Liveryeol .4111
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