Harry Furniss (1854-1925)

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Biographical Materials

• Harry Furniss (1854-1925): Actor, Lecturer, Cartoonist, and Illustrator
• Self-portrait

Illustrations of Great Expectations

Harry Furniss's eighteen-volume edition of The Charles Dickens Library (London: Educational Book Company, 1910) contains some 500 special plates (part of the total of 1200 illustrations) and two volumes of commentary. Volume 17, by J. A. Hammerton, is entitled The Dickens Picture Book: A Record of the Dickens Illustrators. The eighteenth and final volume is entitled The Dickens Companion: A Book of Anecdote and Reference. Although all the plates of volume 14, Great Expectations and Reprinted Pieces, contain captions, some offer quoted text and refer to page numbers in the edition while others do not. Since each page is 12 by 18. 2 cm (4.75 by 7.25 inches) and their margins of 2 cm (3.125 inches by 6.375 inches), with a caption below each in upper-case, and often below that a quotation in upper and lower case, each plate is effectively 14 cm by 8 cm (5.5 inches by 3.25 inches). — Philip V. Allingham

Title or text illustrated	Chapter	Page
1. Pip Fancies He Sees Estella's Face In The Fire.	--	Frontispiece
2. Pip's Struggle With The Escaped Convict	I	3
3. Pip Does Not Enjoy His Christmas Dinner	I	23
4. Miss Havisham	IV	gathering 2b
5. An Unexpected Pleasure For Pip	XI	87
6. Dolge Orlick	XV	105
7. At The Three Jolly Bargemen	XX	126
8. Mr. Jaggers And His Clients	I	157
9. Mrs. Pocket And Her Family	XXII	gathering 6*
10. Pip Shares The Treat Of Mr. Wemmick, Senior	XXV	197
11. Molly Shows Her Wrists	XVI	202
12. Estella and Pip In Miss Havisham's Garden	XXIX	226
13. Pip Enters Mr. Wopsle's Dressing-Room	XXXI	243
14. Mr. Wopsle As Hamlet	XXXI	gathering 8b
15. At Mrs. Gargery's Funeral	XXXV	266
16. Pip Watches Wemmick And Miss Skiffins	XXXVII	283
17. Provis	XXXIX	gathering 10*
18. Magwitch and Compeyson in the Booth at Epsom	XLII	329
19. Drummle and Pip at the Blue Boar	XLIII	338
20. Estella Tells Pip of Her Engagement to Mr. Drummle	XLIV	344
21. Mr. Wemmick, Senior, Has Breakfast in Bed	XLV	350
22. Pip Rescues Miss Havisham from the Fire	XLIX	381
23. Pip at Mr. Jaggers's Office	LI	394
24. Pip in the Power of Dolge Orlick	LIII	405
25. Magwitch under Sentence of Death	LVI	435
26. Joe Indites A Note To Biddy	LVII	441
27. Estella And Pip	LIX	461

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• Marcus Stone (10 plates)

References

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Volume 6 of the Household Edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1871-1880 [this volume c. 1877]. Note: All material is reproduced courtesy of The Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LF.

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