Master Humphrey's Clock, by Charles Dickens illustrated George Cattermole: (10 August 1800, 24 July 1868) was an English painter and illustrator Hablo (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781533583215)

Master Humphrey's Clock was a weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens and published from April 4, 1840 to December 4, 1841. It began with a frame story in which Master Humphrey tells about himself and his small circle of friends (which includes Mr. Pickwick), and their penchant for telling stories. Several short stories were included, followed by the novels The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. Master Humphrey's Clock was a weekly serial that contained both short stories and two novels (The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge). Some of the short stories act as frame stories to the novels so the ordering of publication is important. Although Dickens' original artistic intent was to keep the short stories and the novels together, he himself cancelled Master Humphrey's Clock before 1848, and described in a preface to The Old Curiosity Shop that he wished the story to not be tied down to the miscellany it began within. 1] Most later anthologies published the short stories and the novels separately. However, the short stories and the novels were published in 1840 in three bound volumes under the title Master Humphrey's Clock, which retains the full and correct ordering of texts as they originally appeared. The illustrations in these volumes were by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne, better known as "Phiz".

Author: George Cattermole, (Phiz) Hablot Knight Browne, Charles Dickens
ISBN-10: 1533583218
ISBN-13: 9781533583215
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/02/2016
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.99w x 0.53d