SUPPRESSED PLATES AGENTS AMERICA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 64 & 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CANADA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LTD. 27 RICHMOND STREET WEST, TORONTO INDIA MACMILLAN & COMPANY, LTD. MACMILLAN BUILDING, BOMBAY 309 BOW BAZAAR STREET, CALCUTTA [Illustration: The title-page of the unwritten “Death in London”] SUPPRESSED PLATES WOOD ENGRAVINGS, &c. TOGETHER WITH OTHER CURIOSITIES GERMANE THERETO BEING AN ACCOUNT OF CERTAIN MATTERS PECULIARLY ALLURING TO THE COLLECTOR BY GEORGE SOMES LAYARD [Illustration: (colophon)] LONDON ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK 1907 _Published November 1907_ I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO MY TWO BOYS JOHN AND PETER WHO I SINCERELY HOPE, WILL NOT HAVE SO MANY _USELESS_ HOBBIES AS THEIR AFFECTIONATE FATHER CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTORY . . . 1 2. “THE MARQUIS OF STEYNE” . . . 7 3. THE SUPPRESSED PORTRAIT OF DICKENS, “PICKWICK,” “THE BATTLE OF LIFE,” AND “GRIMALDI” . . . 26 4. DICKENS CANCELLED PLATES: “OLIVER TWIST,” “MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT,” “THE STRANGE GENTLEMAN,” “PICTURES FROM ITALY,” AND “SKETCHES BY BOZ” . . . 43 5. ON SOME FURTHER SUPPRESSED PLATES, ETCHINGS, AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK . . . 59 6. HOGARTH’S “ENTHUSIASM DELINEATED,” “THE MAN OF TASTE,” AND “DON QUIXOTE” . . . 82 7. CANCELLED DESIGNS FOR “PUNCH” AND “ONCE A WEEK” BY CHARLES KEENE AND FREDERICK SANDYS . . . 127 8. MISCELLANEOUS . . . 149 9. THE SUPPRESSED OMAR KHAYYAM ETCHING . . . 179 10. ADAPTED OR PALIMPSEST PLATES . . . 192 11. ADAPTED OR PALIMPSEST PLATES (_continued_) . . . 226 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS _Printed Separately_ The Title-page of the unwritten “Death in London” . . . _Frontispiece_ The Third Marquis of Hertford. (_From the engraving by W. Holl, of the painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence_) . . . _Between pages_ 20 _and_ 21 The Fourth Marquis of Hertford. (_From a photograph_) . . . _Between pages_ 20 _and_ 21 The Third Marquis of Hertford when Lord Yarmouth. (_From the coloured caricature by Richard Dighton_) . . . _Facing page_ 24 The suppressed portrait of Charles Dickens . . . _Facing page_ 28 The “Pickwick” suppressed plate: “The Cricket Match.” (_By R. W. Buss_) . . . _Facing page_ 30 The “Pickwick” suppressed plate: “Tupman and Rachel.” (_By R. W. Buss_) . . . _Between pages_ 32 _and_ 33 “Tupman and Rachel.” (_By H. K. Browne_) . . . _Between pages_ 32 _and_ 33 “The Last Song,” with the suppressed border (_By George Cruikshank_) . . . _Facing page_ 40 The suppressed plate from “Oliver Twist” . . . _Facing page_ 48 1. “The Fireside Scene” 2. “The Fireside Scene,” as worked upon by Cruikshank The suppressed plate from “Sketches by Boz” . . . _Facing page_ 56