[GREAT EXHIBITION] Mr. Goggleye's Visit to the Exhibition of National Industry to be Held in London on the 1st of April 1851. by ONWHYN, Thomas (1814-1886)

Paperback / softback. New.

British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011-03-25. Paperback. Good.

London: W. M. Clarke, 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Frontispiece: engraved portrait of Henry Cockton (J. Welton, engraver, after a J. W. Childs' painting), engraved title-page, printed title-page: [i]-xvi, [1]-367 pp., with a total of 44 plates: 43 are engraved Thomas Onwhyn illustrations. Full leather, with slight wear to hinge of front board. Re-backed, keeping original spine, with elaborate gilt compartments and gilt title label. Gilt borders to boards, with light wear to edges and corners. Book plate to front paste down. A very good copy.

London: Rock, Brothers & Payne,, 1858. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Square twelvemo. Original blue quarter cloth over illustrated red boards. Covers slightly worn, rubbed and faded, contents loose but complete. Good copy.

Oblong 8vo [185 x 105 mm], six wood engraved plates, four dated '12 March 1861', two 'Novr. 20 1860'; stitched as issued in original yellow embossed wrappers, the upper wrappers with title.
The views include: Abbey Church Bath - Great Pulteney St., Bath - Grand Pump Room, Bath - Royal Pump Room, Bath - Drinking the Waters - and Theatre & Beau Nash House, Bath.
Although unsigned, the illustration of visitors to the pump room 'Drinking the Waters' is clearly from the hand of Thomas Onwhyn with his characteristic caricatures of various 'types'.
Simon Houfe in the ODNB calls Onwhyn 'an indifferent draughtsman but showed real humour in his designs. His talent was somewhat overshadowed by those of his more eminent contemporaries, George Cruikshank and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).'

London: E. Grattan, 1837. Octavo, 31 plates by Onwhyn; unbound, loose individual plates contained in an old edge worn envelope, printed with the return address of Zaehnsdorf. A few plates with minor spotting, but generally very good.

London: Albert Jackson,, 1894. First edition thus. Thomas Onwhyn designed 32 illustrations to accompany The Pickwick Papers, which were published in 1837. In 1847, Onwhyn began to design a set of 12 etchings to accompany the new cheap edition of Pickwick. However his 1837 illustrations were reissued as lithographs, and he abandoned the project. The family sold the etchings to Albert Jackson, who reissued them in various formats in 1894, two of these formats present here. It is possible that F. W. Pailthorpe hand-coloured the etchings in the first copy - a pencilled note in the chemise states thus. 2 copies in variant states, small folio. Loose sheets as issued in original green printed wrappers. Housed together in a red cloth chemise within red cloth slipcase, spine lettered in gilt. Each with etched pictorial title-page and 12 plates by Thomas Onwhyn, the first copy with the plates coloured by hand, the second copy with proof impressions on India paper mounted on card. Very light peripheral… Read More

London: E. Grattan,, 1837. Pictorial Pickwickiana First edition, in the original wrappers, of Thomas Onwhyn's additional illustrations to accompany Dickens's Pickwick Papers. The plates were intended to be bound into copies of the novel; it is very uncommon to find sets in wrappers. Pickwick Papers was then being published in monthly parts and was proving a literary sensation. Onwhyn's additional illustrations were issued in these eight parts (initially projected as ten, then reduced), together comprising 32 plates. They are for the most part signed with the pseudonym Samuel Weller (then the most popular Pickwickian), but some bear Onwhyn's initials. The publishing of additional illustrations was a significant feature of Dickens's literary career. "Whether by the same or rival publishers, extra-illustrations became part of the marketing of his works... the early sets participated in the periodicity of Dickens's monthly publications in that they were also published in monthly parts to be completed… Read More