Household Edition The Old Curiosity Shop | Dickens Gallery

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Household Edition

The Household Edition of The Old Curiosity Shop was published in 1876 and features 39 illustrations by Charles Green.

Title Page and Vignette

The door being opened, the child addressed him as her grandfather

The old man sat himself down in a chair, and, with folded hands, looked sometimes at his grandson and sometimes at his strange companion.

When he did sit down, he tucked up his sleeves and squared his elbows and put his face close to the copy-book

Daniel Quilp sat himself down in the wherry to cross to the opposite shore

He soon cast his eyes upon a chair, into which he skipped with uncommon agility, and perching himself on the back with his feet upon the seat, was thus enabled to look on

"I'll beat you to a pulp, you dogs."

"Is it good, Brass, is it nice, is 'it fragrant?"

Not to be behindhand in the bustle, Mr. Quilp went to work with surprising vigour

Nelly, kneeling down beside the box, was soon busily engaged in her task

"Now, gentlemen," said Jerry, looking at them attentively. "The dog who's name's called, eats"

There was but one lady who seemed to understand the child, and she was one who sat alone in a handsome carriage

A small, white-headed boy with a sunburnt face appeared at the door while he was speaking, and, stopping there to make a rustic bow, came in

And then they went arm-in-arm, very lovingly together

She handed down to them the tea-tray, the bread and butter, the knuckle of ham, and, in short, everything of which she had partaken herself

"That, Ladies and Gentlemen," said Mrs. Jarley, "is Jasper Packlemerton of atrocious memory"

And in this state and ceremony rode slowly through the town every evening

In some of these flourishes it went close to Miss Sally's head

"You're the Wax-work child, are you not?"

"Oh, please," said a little voice very low down in the doorway, "will you come and show the lodgings?"

"Do you see this?"

At length everything was ready and they went off

The old man stood helplessly among them for a little time

A man of very uncouth and rough appearance was standing over them

"She is quite exhausted," said the schoolmaster.

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