Brief description
The Penny Pickwick, Vol. I by T. P. Prest
Label
Edward Lloyd was a London publisher famous for his 'penny dreadfuls' (cheap, popular stories of adventure or horror for the working class) including 'Sweeney Todd'. Thomas Peckett Prest was a writer who worked for Lloyd producing, among other cheap fiction, knock-offs of Dickens's stories. Their first story was The Penny Pickwick in April 1837, halfway through the genuine Pickwick Papers's serialisation. Although serialisation (publishing in small, affordable packets of a couple chapters at a time) was intended to make Dickens's work affordable for working class readers, Lloyd's vastly cheaper knock-off was even more affordable and could be bought in common shops like tobacconists.
Collection
Library
Object number
[lib]441
Object type
book

The Penny Pickwick, Vol. I by T. P. Prest