Author: Dickens, Charles [1812 - 1870]
Title: EXTRAORDINARY GAZETTE. Speech of His Mightiness on Opening the Second Number of Bentley's Miscellany, Edited by "Boz."
Description: [London]: [Richard Bentley], 1837. 1st printing (Eckel, pp. 173 - 174; Gimbel E-33). Printed self-wrappers. Housed in a custom brown quarter leather chemise, gilt stamped lettering to front board. 1 printed sheet, folded once vertically forming a 4 pp leaflet. Masthead vignette, by Phiz, depicting a young Dickens standing next to a plump porter carrying a large consignment of Bentley's Miscellany. According to Matz, Dickens in Cartoon & Caricature, the scene engraved by John Thompson. 8-11/16" x 5-13/16". Some modest thumbing & soiling, and evidence of being disbound from another volume. Unobtrusive old paper repair along spine fold. Withal, a VG copy, in a VG chemise, which shows wear & rubbing along the spine. Here Dickens, the new editor for the Miscellany, "paraphrased the average Royal speech, and by the use of bombastic and ponderous expressions announced the coming of 'Oliver Twist.'" [Eckel]. The drawing of Dickens by Phiz the earliest recorded by Wilkins, who compiled Dickens in Cartoon & Caricature [1924]. According to Podeschi, and as is usually the case, the leaflet most likely removed from Bentley's Miscellany Issue III of 1 March 1837, where it had been inserted preceding that issue's Bentley's Advertiser.

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