1839.

LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. (Eleven numbers, the last
being a double number, published monthly from January to October. Issued
complete in the latter month, with dedication to William Charles
Macready.) Chapman & Hall. i. 145; 165-179. ii. 99, 100; 102. iii. 344.

SKETCHES BY BOZ. Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People.
With forty Illustrations by George Cruikshank. (The first complete
edition, issued in monthly parts uniform with _Pickwick_ and _Nickleby_,
from November 1837 to June 1839, with preface dated 15th of May 1839.)
Chapman & Hall. i. 121-124.

1840.

SKETCHES OF YOUNG COUPLES; with an urgent Remonstrance to the Gentlemen
of England, being Bachelors or Widowers, at the present alarming crisis.
By the Author of Sketches of Young Gentlemen. Illustrated by Phiz.
Chapman & Hall, i. 149.

1840-1841.

MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by
George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Three volumes. (First and second
volume, each 306 pp.; third, 426 pp.) For the account of this work,
published in 88 weekly numbers, extending over the greater part of these
two years, see i. 191-203; 240; 281, 282. In addition to occasional
detached papers and a series of sketches entitled MR. WELLER'S WATCH,
occupying altogether about 90 pages of the first volume, 4 pages of the
second, and 5 pages of the third, which have not yet appeared in any
other collected form, this serial comprised the stories of The Old
Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge; each ultimately sold separately in a
single volume, from which the pages of the _Clock_ were detached.
Chapman and Hall.

I. OLD CURIOSITY SHOP (1840).

Began at p. 37 of vol. i.; resumed at intervals up to the appearance of
the ninth chapter; from the ninth chapter at p. 133, continued without
interruption to the close of the volume (then issued with dedication to
Samuel Rogers and preface from Devonshire-terrace, dated September
1840); resumed in the second volume, and carried on to the close of the
tale at p. 223. i. 200-216, iii. 344, 345.

II. BARNABY RUDGE (1841).

Introduced by brief paper from Master Humphrey (pp. 224-8), and carried
to end of Chapter XII. in the closing 78 pages of volume ii., which was
issued with a preface dated in March 1841. Chapter XIII. began the third
volume, and the story closed with its 82nd chapter at p. 420; a closing
paper from Master Humphrey (pp. 421--426) then winding up the Clock,