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Suppressed Plates, Wood-engravings, &c. / Together with Other Curiosities Germane Thereto; Being an Account of Certain Matters Peculiarly Alluring to the Collector

Chapter 3: Printed Separately
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About This Book

A collector-focused study surveys suppressed and cancelled plates, wood engravings, and related curiosities, illustrating how prints were altered, withdrawn, or repurposed. The text documents examples linked to notable fiction and satirical prints, examines different states and palimpsests, and traces editorial and artistic interventions that led to cancellation or adaptation. Individual chapters consider specific artists and plates, provide descriptive commentary on engraved vignettes and cancelled portraits, and present plates and notes intended to guide bibliophiles, print historians, and collectors in identifying and understanding these rarities.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Printed Separately

The Title-page of the unwritten “Death in London” … Frontispiece

The Third Marquis of Hertford. (From the engraving by W. Holl, of the painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence) … Between pages 20 and 21

The Fourth Marquis of Hertford. (From a photograph) … Between pages 20 and 21

The Third Marquis of Hertford when Lord Yarmouth. (From the coloured caricature by Richard Dighton) … Facing page 24

The suppressed portrait of Charles Dickens … Facing page 28

The “Pickwick” suppressed plate: “The Cricket Match.” (By R. W. Buss) … Facing page 30

The “Pickwick” suppressed plate: “Tupman and Rachel.” (By R. W. Buss) … Between pages 32 and 33

“Tupman and Rachel.” (By H. K. Browne) … Between pages 32 and 33

“The Last Song,” with the suppressed border (By George Cruikshank) … Facing page 40

The suppressed plate from “Oliver Twist” … Facing page 48

1. “The Fireside Scene”

2. “The Fireside Scene,” as worked upon by Cruikshank

The suppressed plate from “Sketches by Boz” … Facing page 56

“A Financial Survey of Cumberland or the Beggar’s Petition.” (From the only known uncoloured impression of the plate) … Between pages 64 and 65

“A Financial Survey of Cumberland or the Beggar’s Petition.” (From a coloured impression of the plate, with the figure of the valet oblit­er­at­ed with lamp-black) … Between pages 64 and 65

“Enthusiasm Delineated. (Humbly dedicated to his Grace the Arch Bishop of Canterbury by his Graces most obedient humble Servant Wm. Hogarth”) … Between pages 88 and 89

“Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism. A Medley” … Between pages 88 and 89

Portrait of Hogarth with his Dog Trump … Facing page 112

The plate reversed and in its last state, now en­ti­tled “The Bruiser” … Facing page 112

The Cancelled Cartoon. (By Charles Keene) … Facing page 128

The Cancelled “Social.” (By Charles Keene) … Facing page 136

Suggestion by Joseph Crawhall for the Cancelled “Social” … Facing page 136

“The Painted Chamber.” (From Antiquities of West­min­ster, 1807) … Facing page 150

The suppressed portrait of “John Jorrocks, Esq., M.F.H., etc.” (By Henry Alken, the younger) … Facing page 160

The suppressed frontispiece for “Omar Khayyam.” (By Edwin Edwards) … Facing page 188

“L’Europe alarmée pour le Fils d’un Meunier.” (The plate in its first state) … Between pages 204 and 205

The plate in its second state, now entitled “La Cour de Paix solitaire, entre les Roses piquantes et les Lis” … Between pages 204 and 205

Queen Anne presiding over the House of Lords. (The plate in its first state) … Between pages 236 and 237

The plate in its second state, now representing George I. presiding over the House of Lords … Between pages 236 and 237

“The Races of the Europeans, with their Keys.” (The plate in its first state) … Between pages 238 and 239

“A Skit on Britain.” (The plate in its second state) … Between pages 238 and 239

The Headless Horseman. (The plate with the head burnished out) … Facing page 240

The plate with Cromwell’s head … Between pages 242 and 243

The plate with Charles I.’s head … Between pages 242 and 243

Undescribed palimpsest plate. (First state and second state) … Facing page 244

Undescribed palimpsest plate. (First state and second state) … Facing page 246