- Brief description
- Barnaby Budge by 'Bos', 1841
- 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, including Oliver Twiss, Nickelas Nickleberry, and Barnaby Budge. In June 1837 Dickens sued Lloyd and Prest for plagiarism but lost because Prests's imitations were obviously cheaper and worse than Dickens's and therefore nobody could possibly confuse them.
- Collection
- Library
- Object number
- [lib]445
- Object type
- book
- Production person
- Prest, T P
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