Pickwick Abroad: or, The Tour in France — page 16: what you’re looking at

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PREFACE, V GLAsGow COURIER. «“<« Pickwick Abroad’ is an admirable continuation of Boz’s famous Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club,’ and promises to become equally popular. The characters are sustained with great spirit and fidelity; and the scenes and incidents are varied and full of life.” Revue BritaAnniquE (A Frencn MAGAZINE). Monsieur G.W. M. Reynolds fait voyager en France M. Pickwick, au grand amusement de ses lecteurs. Dans cet ouvrage de M. Reynolds, on remarque avec plaisir que l’auiteur tente a’ accroitre les sympathies de l’Angleterre pour la France.” | These are only a small sample of the favourable notices which the greater portion of the press bestowed upon “ Pickwick Abroad,” when it first made its appearance. Many other works, in a similar strain, and advertised to be published in a similar form, were issued crom the press at about the same time: but, in spite of the announcement “ that they were to be com- _ pleted in twenty Numbers,” they died of pure inanition one after another. A partial feeling of satisfaction and pride cannot therefore be blamed in the author of ‘** Pickwick Abroad,” when he contemplates the successful termination of his labours in the Twenty Parts to which no other imitator of the ‘immortal Boz” has yet attained. The spirited proprietor of the copyright also incurred, at the outset, additional expenses beyond those sustained by any other publisher of a work issued in /evraisons of a similar kind. Besides the two steel engravings by an eminent artist, every Number con- tained two exquisite wood-cuts representing some of the public buildings or scenes of interest in Paris and its environs. These wood-cuts, which are executed in the first style of the art, alone demanded a very considerable sale of the work to defray their cost. It is however hoped that they form no inconsiderable feature in a book, which, by their aid, and on account of the information it contains, may almost be termed a manual for English travel- lers in France. > CORNICLOOKS (E©) mM