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Great Expectations Illustrations
Illustrations by Frederick Pailthorpe
Both the original serialization and the subsequent first edition in book form of Great Expectations were issued without illustrations. This marks the first and only time Dickens did not collaborate with an illustrator.
These 21 etchings by Frederick William Pailthorpe (1838-1914) are from the Robson & Kerslake edition from 1885. Pailthorpe was of the 'old school' of book illustrators as represented by George Cruikshank and Hablot Browne. He was a personal friend of Cruikshank whose influence on Pailthorpe's work is obvious.
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 Frontispiece |
 The terrible stranger in the churchyard |
 Mrs Joe returning from an expedition |
 A stranger at the Three Jolly Bargemen |
 I present Joe to Miss Havisham |
 Ill used |
 May I - may I? |
 Mr. Jaggers and his clients |
 The guileless confectioner |
 Aged P. |
 Trabb's boy |
 The flaying of Hamlet |
 Aged P. tips us the paper |
 On the stairs |
 Shoulder to shoulder |
 Here's old Bill Barley, bless your eyes |
 Confidential with Mr. Jaggers |
 Old Orlick means murder |
 Boundless confidence |
 The arrest |
 The old place by the kitchen firelight |
