The [Pickwick] illustrations
By: by Samuel Weller
Contributors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Publisher: E. Grattan
Published: 1837
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Illustrations
Notes: Illustrated cover title; the bracketed word in the title is a drawing of the character, Mr. Pickwick.

Samuel Weller was, in addition to the name of a character in The Pickwick papers, a pseudonym used by Thomas Onwhyn. "Experts ... have pointed out that a certain number of these plates, about one-third, in fact, are by an anonymous hand."--Pictorial Pickwickiana, edited by Joseph Grego, v. I, p. [369].

Originally published in eight parts.

At head of title: 32 plates -- price 9s.

First plate has same illustration as cover, but without number of plates and price at head, without artist's pseudonym, and with a different date in imprint at foot: Decr. 9, 1837 on t.p., Novr. 30, 1837 in imprint on first plate.

Carr, L.  VanderPoel Dickens, B39