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Bleak House / by Charles Dickens ; with sixty-one illustrations by F. Barnard.
LIBRA - Rare PR4556 .A1 1873 pt.1-29
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, author.
- Series:
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. 1871 (Chapman and Hall) http://viaf.org/viaf/5218151595778305470001 Works.
- Dickens's works
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young women--Fiction.
- Young women.
- Guardian and ward--Fiction.
- Guardian and ward.
- Illegitimate children--Fiction.
- Illegitimate children.
- Inheritance and succession--Fiction.
- Inheritance and succession.
- Law--England--Fiction.
- Law.
- London (England)--Fiction.
- London (England).
- England.
- England--London.
- Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Legal fiction (Literature)
- Serialized fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 440 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- Household edition.
- Manufacture:
- London : Printed by Virtue and Co., [1873]
- Place of Publication:
- London : Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly, [1873]
- Summary:
- Bleak House follows the fortunes and relationships of three characters whose fates are tied to the obscure inheritance case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, which is tied up in endless litigation. While many deserving and undeserving claim the inheritance, it is ironically being devoured in legal costs.
- Notes:
- Issued in monthly parts by Chapman and Hall in a new series of the complete edition of Charles Dickens known as the Household edition. Reset in large type on a quarto page, the series was furnished with entirely new illustrations by a fresh set of artists. The series could also be purchased as penny numbers and bound volumes.
- Printer statement on verso of title page.
- Series statement from the spine edge of the individual penny numbers.
- The parts were originally covered with blue paper covers and stab-bound to hold together the individual numbers. The penny numbers are numbered 68-96 on the first page of each number. Printed in two columns with illustrations placed in the center of the pages. There are three full-page illustrations.
- Victorian Web provides useful information about the series and publication date: http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/barnard/household.html
- Local Notes:
- LIBRA Rare copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Michael Zinman. In 29 parts. No preliminary matter. No blue covers. Part 3 misnumbered 2.
- Cited in:
- Waugh, A. Hundred years of publishing: being the story of Chapman & Hall, Ltd., page 175
- OCLC:
- 1017760512
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