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Jerrold, Douglas. A MAN MADE OF MONEY. With Twelve Illustrations on Steel by John Leech. London: Punch Office, 1848-1849. Six serial parts in original pictorial pea-green wrappers. 6 parts.
First Edition, in the original six monthly serial parts issued from October 1848 through March 1849. Each part includes two plates by John Leech. This is Jerrold's satire on the worship of wealth: a man is preoccupied with Money, to the detriment of his wife and daughters -- but ultimately his greed does him in... The story
...is calculated to effect unmixed good -- that is, to overthrow the idolatry of money; to hold up to everlasting contempt and ridicule the servile adulation of the great; and to teach men, if they would be either happy or prosperous, they must owe their prosperity and their happiness to their own honest and humble exertions. [from an ad for the book edition, in the final part]
This set collates the same as the one cited by Wolff (12-page Advertiser in Part I, 4-page Advertiser in the next three parts, no Advertiser in the final two; the Dickens slip is not in this Part VI, but at the end of the final part are the half-title, title and list of illustrations for binding into book form. Condition is very good-plus (some dustiness of the wrappers, one part with the pea-green wrapper somewhat faded, one part with the signature of a Regent's Park resident at the top of the front wrapper). Wolff 3667a (who erroneaously gives the dates as October 1849 through March 1850). Housed in an attractive morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise.
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