Complete Works of Wilkie Collins (2369 page)

1848.

Dealings with the Firm of Dombey & Son: Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation. (Five numbers issued monthly, the last being a double number, from January to April; in which latter month the complete work was published with dedication to Lady Normanby and preface dated Devonshire-terrace, 24th of March.) Bradbury & Evans, ii. ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; -; -; -. iii. .

The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas Time. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Stanfield R.A., John Tenniel, Frank Stone A.R.A., and John Leech. Bradbury & Evans, ii. ; -; ; -; .

1849.

The Personal History of David Copperfield. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Hablot Browne. (Eight parts issued monthly from May to December.) Bradbury & Evans.

1850.

The Personal History of David Copperfield. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Hablot Browne. (Twelve numbers issued monthly, the last being a double number, from January to November; in which latter month the completed work was published, with inscription to Mr. and Mrs. Watson of Rockingham, and preface dated October.) Bradbury & Evans. ii. ; , ; , ; ; ; -; -; . iii. -; , .

Household Words. On Saturday the 30th of March in this year the weekly serial of Household Words was begun, and was carried on uninterruptedly to the 28th of May 1859, when, its place having been meanwhile taken by the serial in the same form still existing, Household Words was discontinued. ii. -; -. iii. ; -.

Christmas Number of
Household Words
. CHRISTMAS. To this Dickens contributed A Christmas Tree.

1851.

Christmas Number of
Household Words
. WHAT CHRISTMAS IS. To this Dickens contributed What Christmas is as we grow older.

1852.

Bleak House. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Hablot Browne. (Ten numbers, issued monthly, from March to December.) Bradbury & Evans.

Christmas Number of
Household Words
. Stories for Christmas. To this Dickens contributed The Poor Relation’s Story, and The Child’s Story.

1853.

Bleak House. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Hablot Browne. (Ten numbers issued monthly, the last being a double number, from January to September, in which latter month, with dedication to his “Companions in the Guild of Literature and Art,” and preface dated in August, the completed book was published.) Bradbury & Evans, ii. ; . iii. -; -; -; .

A Child’s History of England. By Charles Dickens. Three vols. With frontispieces from designs by F. W. Topham. Reprinted from
Household Words
, where it appeared between the dates of the 25th of January 1851 and the 10th of December 1853. (It was published first in a complete form with dedication to his own children in 1854.) Bradbury & Evans, iii. .

Christmas Number of
Household Words
. Christmas Stories. To this Dickens contributed The School Boy’s Story, and Nobody’s Story.

1854.

Hard Times. For these Times. By Charles Dickens. (This tale appeared in weekly portions in
Household Words
, between the dates of the 1st of April and the 12th of August 1854; in which latter month it was published complete, with inscription to Thomas Carlyle.) Bradbury & Evans, iii. -.

Christmas Number of
Household Words:
The Seven Poor Travellers. To this Dickens contributed three chapters. I. In the Old City of Rochester; II. The Story of Richard Doubledick; III. The Road. iii. .

1855.

Little Dorrit. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Hablot Browne. The first number published in December. Bradbury & Evans.

Christmas Number of
Household Words
. The Holly-Tree. To this Dickens contributed three branches. I. Myself; II. The Boots; III. The Bill. iii. ; .

1856.

Little Dorrit. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Hablot Browne. (Twelve numbers issued monthly, between January and December.) Bradbury & Evans.

Christmas Number of
Household Words
. The Wreck Of The Golden Mary. To this Dickens contributed the leading chapter: The Wreck. iii. .

1857.

Little Dorrit. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Hablot Browne. (Seven numbers issued monthly, the last being a double number, from January to June, in which latter month the tale was published complete, with preface, and dedication to Clarkson Stanfield.) Bradbury & Evans, iii. ; ; ; ; -; -.

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, in
Household Words
for October. To the first part of these papers Dickens contributed all up to the top of the second column of page 316; to the second part, all up to the white line in the second column of page 340; to the third part, all except the reflections of Mr. Idle (363-5); and the whole of the fourth part. All the rest was by Mr. Wilkie Collins, iii. -; .

Christmas Number of
Household Words
. The Perils of Certain English Prisoners. To this Dickens contributed the chapters entitled The Island of Silver-store, and The Rafts on the River.

The First Library Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens. The first volume, with dedication to John Forster, was issued in December 1857, and the volumes appeared monthly up to the 24th, issued in November 1859. The later books and writings have been added in subsequent volumes, and an addition has also been issued with the illustrations. To the second volume of the Old Curiosity Shop, as issued in this edition, were added 31 “Reprinted Pieces” taken from Dickens’s papers in
Household Words;
which have since appeared also in other collected editions. Chapman & Hall. iii. .

Authorized French Translation of the Works of Dickens. Translations of Dickens exist in every European language; but the only version of his writings in a foreign tongue authorized by him, or for which he received anything, was undertaken in Paris. Nickleby was the first story published, and to it was prefixed an address from Dickens to the French public dated from Tavistock-house the 17th January 1857. Hachette. iii. ; .

1858.

Christmas Number of
Household Words
. A House to Let. To this Dickens contributed the chapter entitled “Going into Society.” iii. ; .

1859.

All the Year Round, the weekly serial which took the place of Household Words. Began on the 30th of April in this year, went on uninterruptedly until Dickens’s death, and is continued under the management of his son. iii. -; ; -.

A Tale of Two Cities. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Hablot Browne. This tale was printed in weekly portions in
All the Year Round
, between the dates of the 30th of April and the 26th of November 1859; appearing also concurrently in monthly numbers with illustrations, from June to December; when it was published complete with dedication to Lord John Russell, iii. ; ; -.

Christmas Number of
All the Year Round
. The Haunted House. To which Dickens contributed two chapters. I. The Mortals in the House. II. The Ghost in Master B’s Room. iii. .

1860.

Hunted Down. A Story in two Portions. (Written for an American newspaper, and reprinted in the numbers of
All the Year Round
for the 4th and the 11th of August. iii. ; .)

The Uncommercial Traveler. By Charles Dickens. (Seventeen papers, which had appeared under this title between the dates of 28th of January and 13th of October 1860 in
All the Year Round
, were published at the close of the year, in a volume, with preface dated December. A later impression was issued in 1868, as a volume of what was called the Charles Dickens Edition; when eleven fresh papers, written in the interval, were added; and promise was given, in a preface dated December 1868, of the Uncommercial Traveller’s intention “to take to the road again before another winter sets in.” Between that date and the autumn of 1869, when the last of his detached papers were written,
All the Year Round
published seven “New Uncommercial Samples” which have not yet been collected. Their title’s were, i. Aboard ship (which opened, on the 5th of December 1868, the New Series of
All the Year Round
); ii. A Small Star in the East; iii. A Little Dinner in an Hour; iv. Mr. Barlow; v. On an Amateur Beat; vi. A Fly-Leaf in a Life; vii. A Plea for Total Abstinence. The date of the last was the 5th of June 1869; and on the 24th of July appeared his last piece of writing for the serial he had so long conducted, a paper entitled
Landor’s Life
.) iii. -; .

Christmas Number of
All the Year Round
. A Message from the Sea. To which Dickens contributed nearly all the first, and the whole of the second and the last chapter: The Village, the Money, and the Restitution; the two intervening chapters, though also with insertions from his hand, not being his.

Great Expectations. By Charles Dickens. Begun in
All the Year Round
on the 1st of December, and continued weekly to the close of that year.

1861.

Great Expectations. By Charles Dickens. Resumed on the 5th of January and issued in weekly portions, closing on the 3rd of August, when the complete story was published in three volumes and inscribed to Chauncy Hare Townshend. In the following year it was published in a single volume, illustrated by Mr. Marcus Stone. Chapman & Hall. iii. ; ;
 
(the words there used “on Great Expectations closing in June 1861” refer to the time when the Writing of it was closed: it did not close in the Publication until August, as above stated); -.

Christmas Number of
All the Year Round
, TOM TIDDLER’S GROUND. To which Dickens contributed three of the seven chapters. I. Picking up Soot and Cinders; II. Picking up Miss Kimmeens; III. Picking up the Tinker. iii. .

1862.

Christmas Number of
All the Year Round
. Somebody’s Luggage. To which Dickens contributed four chapters. I. His Leaving it till called for; II. His Boots; III. His Brown-paper Parcel; IV. His Wonderful End. To the chapter of His Umbrella he also contributed a portion. iii. ; .

1863.

Christmas Number of
All the Year Round
. Mrs. Lirriper’s Lodgings. To which Dickens contributed the first and the last chapter. I. How Mrs. Lirriper carried on the Business; II. How the Parlours added a few words. iii. , .

1864.

Our Mutual Friend. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Marcus Stone. Eight numbers issued monthly between May and December. Chapman & Hall.

Christmas Number of
All the Year Round:
Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy: to which Dickens contributed the first and the last chapter. I. Mrs. Lirriper relates how she went on, and went over; II. Mrs. Lirriper relates how Jemmy topped up. iii. .

1865.

Our Mutual Friend. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Marcus Stone. In Two Volumes. (Two more numbers issued in January and February, when the first volume was published, with dedication to Sir James Emerson Tennent. The remaining ten numbers, the last being a double number, were issued between March and November, when the complete work was published in two volumes.) Chapman & Hall. iii. ; , ; .

Christmas Number of
All the Year Round
. Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions. To this Dickens contributed three portions. I. To be Taken Immediately. II. To be Taken for Life; III. The portion with the title of To be Taken with a Grain of Salt, describing a Trial for Murder, was also his. iii. .

1866.

Christmas Number of
All the Year Round
. Mugby Junction. To this Dickens contributed four papers. I. Barbox Brothers; II. Barbox Brothers and Co.; III. Main Line — The Boy at Mugby. IV. No. 1 Branch Line — The Signal-man. iii.
 
(where a slight error is made in not treating
Barbox
and the
Mugby Boy
as parts of one Christmas piece).