Mrs. Caudle's curtain lectures/Bibliography

by Douglas William Jerrold

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Original Issue.

1845. Punch. — Jan, 4, 11, 18; Feb. 1, 15 ; March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; April 5, 12, 19, 26; May 10, 17, 24, 31; June 7, 14, 21, 28; July 5, 12, 19, 26; Aug. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; Sept. 6, 13, 20; Oct. 11, 18; Nov. 8.

Separate Issues.

"Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures, as Suffered by the late Job Caudle." Edited from the Original MSS. by Douglas Jerrold. London: Punch Office, 1846. 16mo. (With a frontispiece by Leech, and as motto on the title-page, "Then, Pistol, lay thy head in Fury's lap"—Shakspere. This issue ran through several editions.)

"Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures." 8vo. London : Bradbury and Evans, 1856. (Apparently the first issue with the Author's preface.)

"Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures." Illustrated by Charles Keene, with a coloured frontispiece. Printed on tinted paper. 4to. London : Bradbury, Evans & Co., 1866.

"Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures.' 8vo. With Charles Keene's and other illustrations, London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., 1888.

"Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures." The "Caxton Novels" series. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1894.

"Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures." Handy volume edition. 16mo. London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co. N. D.

"Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures." With Charles Keene's illustrations. Popular sixpenny edition. London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co. N. D.

As No. 25 of "The Penny Library of Famous Books," London: Newnes. N. D.

As a penny booklet sold on the kerbstones advertising an article of trade. N. D.

As a large 4 pp. supplement to the Newcastle Evening Chronicle, Dec. 30, 1887.

"English as it is Spoken: Douglas Jerrold's Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures." Esercizi di Conversazione per gli Studenti delta lingua Inglese di G, M. Sersanti. Without the Preface. Bologna, 1885.

With other Writings of Douglas Jerrold's.

In the 8-vol. edition of "The Writings of Douglas Jerrold." 8vo. 1851-54.

In the 4-vol. edition of "The Works of Douglas Jerrold." 8vo. 1863-64.

"Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures and Mrs. Bib's Baby." With introductory memoir by Blanchard Jerrold. 8vo. London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., 1873.

"Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures and other Stories." 8vo. London: Walter Scott, 1892.

Translations.

German.—"Madame Kaudel's Gardinenpredigten." Von Douglas Jerrold. Bearbeitet von F. Gerstacker. Mit illustrationen von L. Loeffler. Funfte auflage. Leipzig, 1869. 4to.

"Gardinenpredigten der Frau Margarethe Kaudel." Von Douglas Jerrold. Leipzig, 1870. 8vo.

French.—"Sermons du Soir de Mme. Caudle." Traduction Nouvelle avec Étude Biographique et Littéraire par A. Buisson du Berger. (Nouv. Bib. Pop. Paris, 1890. 8vo. Only twelve of the Lectures are given.)

"Sous les Rideaux." Traduit par Albert le Roy. Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette & Cie., 1865.

Swedish.—"Fru Svenssons Sparlakanslexor of Douglas Jerrold. Fri Ofversittning fräu Engelska originalet Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures." Stockholm, 1872. 8vo.

Hungarian.—"Kukliné Prédikácziói. Néhai Kukli Jonás Hátrahagyott Irataibol öszszeszedte unoka öcscse Kukli Jérémias." Kolozsvártt, 1860.

Dutch.—A Dutch translation exists, but I have not been able to obtain a copy.

Miscellaneous.

1845.—"Mrs. Caudle's Changeable Faces," a coloured lithograph. London. 4to.

"The Caudle Duet" versified from Punch expressly for the Rosherville Gardens by Mr. Baron Nathan. Gravesend. 4to. single sheet.

Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Caudle. Lithograph by John Leech.

1860.—"Mrs. Caudle in Crinoline," with coloured plates. London. 4to.

Dramatization.

1845.—"Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lecture! An Apropos Bagatelle in One Act. Founded on and taken from the articles in Punch." By Edward Stirling. London: Dunscombe.

[Other dramatizations of the "Lectures" were produced at provincial theatres, such as "Mrs. Caudle at Gravesend: A Comic Sketch," by C. Z. Barnett, but Stirling's is so far as I know the only one printed.]

Mr. Caudle's Breakfast Talk.

1845. — In Punch's Almanack for 1846. London.

1888.—"Fireside Saints: Mr. Caudle's Breakfast Talk and other Papers," by Douglas Jerrold. Prefaced by J. B. B. Melrose: July 24, 1873. Boston, U.S.A.

THE END.

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