[Charles Dickens, editor]. The Pic Nic Papers. By Various Hands. Edited by Charles Dickens, Esq....With Illustra... (Total: 3 Items)

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< p. Dickens, to Companion Reader?s (Oxford venture? publishing charitable this from £450 received ultimately Macrone Mrs Dickens. with collaboration last Cruikshank?s be proved Stone?, Philosopher?s ?The titled Story? Lamplighter?s for illustration an frontispiece, The Cruikshank. George by two and Browne K. Hablot engravings six included it 1841; August 9 on published finally was anthology the delays frustrating many After others. Strickland, Agnes Ritchie, Leitch Moore, Thomas Ainsworth, Harrison William contributions editing as well Lamplighter, farce unsuccessful his adapted Story?, tale, short a Introduction brief contributed he eventually 1838; of February in book assembling began Dickens 1837. September suddenly died who Macrone, John publisher 28-year-old children infant widow benefit edited authors, various pieces miscellaneous three-volume A>"A three-volume anthology of miscellaneous pieces by various authors, edited by Dickens, to benefit the widow and infant children of 28-year-old publisher John Macrone, who died suddenly in September of 1837. Dickens began assembling contributions for the book in February of 1838; eventually he contributed a brief Introduction and a short tale, 'The Lamplighter's Story', adapted from his unsuccessful farce The Lamplighter, as well as editing contributions by William Harrison Ainsworth, Thomas Moore, Leitch Ritchie, Agnes Strickland, and others. After many frustrating delays the anthology was finally published on 9 August 1841; it included six engravings by Hablot K. Browne and two by George Cruikshank. The frontispiece, an illustration for 'The Lamplighter's Story' titled 'The Philosopher's Stone', proved to be Cruikshank's last collaboration with Dickens. Mrs Macrone ultimately received £450 from this charitable publishing venture" (Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens, p. 443).