- Brief description
- Posthumous Papers of the Cadgers Club by T. P. Prest, 1837
- 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 worked for Lloyd writing plagiarised copies of Dickens's stories. Lloyd and Prest were one of many partnerships creating knock-off Dickens stories. The Pickwick Papers were particularly popular among plagiarisers as the open-ended and episodic nature meant they could add their own 'sequels' or 'continuations' to the end of Dickens's work. Prest had produced The Penny Pickwick for Lloyd but is believed to have also written this, the Cadgers' Club around the same time. Dickens sued Lloyd for plagiarism but lost because Prest's copies were so poor it was not believed anyone could mistake the two products.
- Collection
- Library
- Object number
- [lib]470
- Object type
- booklet
- Production date
- 1837
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