sketches
Subtitle: three tales
By: by the authors of "Amy Herbert," "The old man's home," and "Hawkstone."
Contributors: Adams, William, 1814-1848.; Sewell, William, 1804-1874.; M. & N. Hanhart (Firm); Spottiswoode and Shaw; Westleys and Clark
Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
Published: 1848
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Notes: T.p. printed within thin black rule border.

Written by Elizabeth Missing Sewell, William Adams, and William Sewell.  Cf. Halkett, Samuel and John Laing. A dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous publications in the English language, 1980.

"This little volume had its origin in the following circumstance.  It was suggested, as a Christmas amusement, that one of a party should draw a series of sketches, which the rest should severally interweave into some short story or description.  Subsequently, a proposal was made that a volume, so framed, should be published, with a view to increasing the funds for the erection of a church and schools at Bonchurch, in which all the contributors felt a common interest.  The original plan has been faithfully adhered to: the engravings, therefore, are not illustrations of the letter-press, but the letter-press of the engravings.  The Sketches themselves are, in fact, views of actual scenes, and were finished before they were submitted to the writers.  It was, however, left to their option to assign to each of them either the real or a fictitious name, and to arrange the series in any order they pleased."--Advertisement.

Lithographed plates are with imprint: "M. & N. Hanhart Lith.".

Publisher's advertisements on p. [1]-32 at end.

Wolff, Robert E. Nineteenth-century fiction, 6261.

MASS copy: Bound in green vertical rib-grain cloth blocked in blind with the spine blocked in gold.  With cream endpapers.  With binder's ticket: "Bound by  Westleys & Clark.  London.".
Table of contents: title: Walter Lorimer; title: The emblems of life; title: The lost inheritance.