A Man Made of Money.

JERROLD, Douglas.

$950.00

Item Number: 121345

London: Punch, 1848-49.

First edition of this work. Octavo, original, six volumes, illustrated wrappers. Illustrated with 12 engraved plates by John Leech. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Scarce in the original wrappers.

Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857), "famous wit, successful playwright, magazine proprietor (he was one of the founders of PUNCH) and very minor novelist, flourished on the edge of the Victorian fiction scene ... In the 1820s, a period of excited reform agitation, he developed the political radicalism which he held throughout his life ... This story is one of Jerrold's most effective satires on capitalism. He apparently borrowed the idea for his novel from Balzac's LA PEAU DE CHAGRIN (1831)." - Sutherland, Victorian Fiction, pp. 332-33; 406. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 922. Bleiler (1978), p. 109. Reginald 07896. Block, The English Novel 1740-1850, p. 123. Wolff 3667.