It need only be added that, in the beautiful “Victorian Edition” of the novel, published in two volumes by Messrs. Chapman and Hall in 1887, facsimiles may be seen of the original drawings made for the suppressed plates, as well as two unpublished drawings prepared by Mr. Buss, but not used. The subjects of these are “Mr. Pickwick at the Review,” and “Mr. Wardle and his Friends under the Influence of the Salmon.” The first is an excellent drawing, and goes far to prove that, had Buss been given time, he would have no more failed as illustrator of _Pickwick_ than he did as illustrator of various other most successful publications. The same edition also contains facsimiles of an unused drawing by “Phiz,” “Mr. Winkle’s First Shot,” and of a water-colour drawing of “Tom Smart and the Chair,” sent in to the publishers by John Leech as a specimen of his work. From which it will be seen that the “Victorian Edition,” limited to two thousand copies, is also one which every Dickens lover ought, if possible, to possess. {34} The originals of the Buss drawings were in the possession of the artist’s daughter, Miss Frances Mary Buss, the well-known founder of the North London Collegiate and Camden Schools, until her death a few years ago. They were then sold, and I have been unable to discover into whose hands they have passed. So much for the _Pickwick_ suppressed plates, which, if strict chronology were to be observed, should naturally be followed by an account of the “Rose Maylie and Oliver” plates in _Oliver Twist_. These, however, we shall hold over for another chapter, as they will have to be considered at some length. Meanwhile, we will deal shortly with the curious wood engraving in _The Battle of Life_, and with the etching of “The Last Song” in _The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi_. The former is so far germane to our subject that it should have been suppressed, but, out of consideration for the artist, was not. [Illustration: The Battle of Life. “Leech’s grave mistake”] Every Dickens collector desires to possess the complete set of the “Christmas Books” in their dainty red cloth bindings, dated from 1843 to 1848. A really desirable set includes, of course, {36} the _Christmas Carol_,[11] with coloured plates by Leech, with the _green end-papers_ and “stave 1”; _The Chimes_, with the publishers’ names _within_ the engraved part of the title-page; and _The Battle of Life_, with the publishers’ names on _both_ titles. But it is only the last of these that is entitled to mention in a treatise on cancelled illustrations, and that, as I have said, not because it _was_ suppressed, but because it should have been. [11] It may be mentioned that there are two or three copies of the _Christmas Carol_ known with the title-page and half-title printed in green and red, instead of in red and blue. Much store is laid by this variation amongst really moonstruck collectors.