Great Expectations Illustrations

Illustrations by Frederick Pailthorpe

Both the original serialization and the subsequent first edition in book form of Great Expectations were issued without illustrations. This marks the first and only time Dickens did not collaborate with an illustrator.

These 21 etchings by Frederick William Pailthorpe (1838-1914) are from the Robson & Kerslake edition from 1885. Pailthorpe was of the 'old school' of book illustrators as represented by George Cruikshank and Hablot Browne. He was a personal friend of Cruikshank whose influence on Pailthorpe's work is obvious.

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Frontispiece	The terrible stranger in the churchyard	Mrs Joe returning from an expedition	A stranger at the Three Jolly Bargemen	I present Joe to Miss Havisham
Ill used	May I - may I?	Mr Jaggers and his clients	The guileless confectioner	Aged P.
Trabb's boy	The flaying of Hamlet	Aged P. tips us the paper	On the stairs	Shoulder to shoulder
Here's old Bill Barley, bless your eyes	Confidential with Mr Jaggers	Old Orlick means murder	Boundless confidence	The arrest
The old place by the kitchen firelight