Lot 36: [PICKWICK PAPERS]. -- ONWHYN, Thomas (1811 - 1886) -- PAILTHORPE, F.W. 12 Illustrations To The Pickwick Club...Drawn and Etched in 1847 - Now First Published . London: Albert Jackson, 1894.

[PICKWICK PAPERS]. -- ONWHYN, Thomas (1811 - 1886) -- PAILTHORPE, F.W. 12 Illustrations To The Pickwick Club...Drawn and Etched in 1847 - Now First Published. London: Albert Jackson, 1894.

2o (271 x 187 mm). 4pp. preliminaries (lightly browned). Etched vignette-title (lettering designed by Pailthorpe) and 12 plates (224 x 138 mm) by Onwhyn hand-colored by Pailthorpe (lightly browned). Loose as issued in original green etched paper portfolio (corners creased and one torn with minor loss); brown cloth folding case. Provenance: Kenyon Starling (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION, PUBLISHER'S PRESENTATION COPY inscribed at the head of the front cover of the portfolio: "With Albert Jackson's kind regards." "In the year 1847 was issued The Cheap Edition of Pickwick, with a new Preface by Dickens, but without illustrations excepting a frontispiece by Leslie. Thereupon T. Onwhyn designed a set of 12 humorous etchings on steel, which it was his intention to publish independently, as extra illustrations. He had, however, in 1837 designed another and entirely different set of illustrations to Pickwick, and before there was time to issue the new set, the earlier plates were re-published. Onwhyn then relinquished the idea of issuing the new set and their existence was lost sight of" (from the publisher's "Advertisement").

[With:]

PAILTHORPE, F.W. Original pencil sketch design for front cover of portfolio to 12 Illustrations To The Pickwick Club by T. Onwhyn. London: Albert Jackson, 1894. 1 pp. 8o (223 x 145 mm). (Lightly dustsoiled, small blemish lefthand margin.)