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  • Chapter 3 - Dickens Unwrapped

  • Luisa Calè, Birkbeck College, University of London
  • Book:
    The Book Unbound
    Published online:
    13 December 2025
    Print publication:
    08 January 2026, pp 131-197

  • Summary

    ‘Dickens Unwrapped’ focuses on part publication as a peculiar dynamic of the unbound book as an interim phase before and after the complete set is bound by the publisher. In the monthly parts of The Pickwick Papers and Nicholas Nickleby, two loose illustrations printed on different paper appear before the text. Additional sets by other illustrators publicized in the Pickwick and Nickleby Advertisers act as complementary additions that diversify and customize serial fiction as part of the publisher’s marketing strategy. In Master Humphrey’s Clock, the official illustrations are inserted as vignettes in the body of the page of letterpress, rather than as full-page illustrations. If this tighter control of the visual and verbal layout of the original marks out additional sets more clearly as extras, specimens of additional illustrations inserted in advertisers restore the book’s potential as an open-ended collection of illustrations and alternative ways of seeing and reading Dickens’s writing.