The Chapman and Hall Advertiser: A Catalogue of Books (1859)
Chapman and Hall's Advertiser: Catalogue of Books (1859) shows us what Edward Chapman and William Hall were publishing, and actually gives us a context for the appearance of the latest Dickens latest novel in volume form in November 1859 (priced at nine shillings). It also gives us insight into which authors the twenty-nine-year-old firm was publishing besides Dickens, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sir Edward G. D. Bulwer-Lytton, Thomas Carlyle, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Kingsley, Charles Lever, George Meredith, Henry Morley, William M. Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope. In 1859 alone the firm added five significant titles: Coulton's Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by It, Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, Lever's Davenport Dunn, Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (3 volumes), and Trollope's The Bertrams (3 volumes).
Index for Chapman and Hall's "Advertiser" (November 1859), Pp. 1-32.
- 1. A Catalogue of Books, Published by Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. November, 1859
- 2. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: A Catalogue of Books, Aide to Atlases and Maps.
- 3. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: Titles by Trollope, White and Meredith.
- 4. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: Memoirs of Robert-Houdin to Meredith's The Wanderer.
- 5. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall includes Trollope, Dickens's Household Words, The National Review No. XVIII, and Davenport Dunn: A Man of Our Day by Charles Lever.
- 6. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall [continued].
- 7. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: Atlases and Maps; authors Austin to Barry Cornwall.
- 8. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: authors Barry Cornwall to Boner.
- 9. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: Books for the Blind (7 titles); Border Lands to Butler.
- 10. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: Carlyle's Works (13 titles), Coleridge, Cooper, Craik..
- 11. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: Chapman and Hall's Select Library of Fiction (18 titles, Gaskell to Hawthorne).
- 12. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: Works by Mr. Charles Dickens, "Original Editions," "Cheap and Uniform Editions," and "Charles Dickens's Readings."
- 13. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: The Works of Mr. Charles Dickens (Post 8vo, 13 titles).
- 14. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: authors Dante to Domville.
- 15. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: authors Domville to Gallenga.
- 16. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: authors Gallenga to Hall.
- 17. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: Hand Phrenology to Italian Cause.
- 18. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: Authors Jervis to Lewis, including Alton Locke: Tailor and Poet by Charles Kingsley.
- 19. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: Charles Lever's Works. "Library Edition." "Cheap and Uniform Editions of Lever's Works."
- 20. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: Lever to Lowry's Table Atlas.
- 21. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: authors Lytton to Manual of French Cookery; includes Bulwer-Lytton's Money, Not so Bad as We Seem, Richelieu; or, The Conspiracy, and The Lady of Lyons.
- 22. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: authors Mariotti to Meredith.
- 23. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: authors Michiels to Morley.
- 24. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: authors Morley to Muloch.
- 25. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: Raikes, Rambles, and Reading for Travellers.
- 26. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: authors Redgrave to St. John, Bayle.
- 27. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: authors St. John, Bayle (continued) to St. John, J. A.
- 28. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: Sharpe's Atlas to Surtees.
- 29. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall [continued] includes Thackeray's The Irish Sketch-Book, Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo . . ., and Christmas Books.
- 30. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: includes Anthony Trollope's The Girlhood of Catherine de' Medici, A Decade of Italian Women, Tuscany in 1849 and in 1850, Dr. Thorne. A Novel, and The Bertrams. A Novel.
- 31. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall [continued, W to Z]: authors White to Zschokke.
- 32. List of New Books, Published by Chapman and Hall: "Books for the Use of Schools."
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Bibliography
Bassett, Troy J. "Publisher: Chapman and Hall in 1859." At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901. Posted 15 December 2022. Accessed 30 March 2023.
Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne. London: Chapman and Hall, November 1859. Appendix: "The Advertiser," pp. 1-32.
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Woodcock, George. "Introduction" to Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970.
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