"Master Humphrey's Clock" by Charles Dickens, with illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne, published by Chapman and Hall, London, MDCCCXL (1840). First edition in book form. Variant binding-- Master Humphrey's Clock stories and Old Curiosity Shop complete in one volume. No Burnaby Rouge.

Hard boards, marbled boards have some wear, backboard has an old repair (see photo), leather spine and corners [some wear and small damages: see photos]; gold tooled spine with five raised bands; 7.1/4" x 10.3/4"; marbled endpapers; no half-title page, frontispiece, Preface dated September 1840, 306 + 228 pages, gold upper page edges, untrimmed vertical and bottom edges, a few small stains, very good condition.

George Cattermole (1800-1868) was a British painter and illustrator. He was a friend of Charles Dickens and many other literary and artistic figures.

He was largely employed by publishers, illustrating the Cathedral Antiquities of England produced by John Britton, the Waverley Novels, and the Historical Annual of his brother Richard Cattermole (his scenes from the wars of Cavaliers and Roundheads in this series are among his best engraved works), and many other volumes besides. He collaborated on illustrations for Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge.

Hablot Knight Browne (1815-1882) was an English artist and illustrator. Well known by his pen name, Phiz, he illustrated books by Charles Dickens, Charles Lever, and Harrison Ainsworth.

In the spring of 1836, he met Charles Dickens. It was at the time when Dickens was looking for someone to illustrate Pickwick. Browne's first two etched plates for Pickwick were signed "Nemo", but the third was signed "Phiz", a pseudonym which was retained in future. When asked to explain why he chose this name he answered that the change from "Nemo" to "Phiz" was made to harmonize better with Dickens's "Boz".

Dickens and Phiz became good friends and in 1838 travelled together to Yorkshire to see the schools of which Nicholas Nickleby became the hero. They later made several other journeys together to facilitate the illustrator's work. Of the ten books by Dickens which Phiz illustrated, he is most known for David Copperfield, Pickwick, Dombey and Son, Martin Chuzzlewit and Bleak House.

In addition to his work for Dickens, Phiz illustrated more than twenty of Lever's novels (among them Harry Lorrequer, Charles O'Malley, Jack Hinton and the Knight of Gwynne). He also illustrated Harrison Ainsworth's and Frank Smedley's novels. Mervyn Clitheroe by Ainsworth is one of the most accomplished of the artist's works.

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