Note 12 — Chapter III · THE SUP­PRESSED POR­TRAIT OF DICKENS, “PICK­WICK,” “THE BAT­TLE OF LIFE,” AND GRI­MAL­DI

My attention was lately called to a copy of the memoirs in which the former owner had pasted the following amusingly irrelevant note:—“At the Beckford sale a copy of the famous Grimm—the Grimm with the illus­tra­tions printed in bronze-coloured ink—fetched £64.” I have a very shrewd suspicion that the annotator had an un­me­thod­i­cal brain, and believed Grimm to be short for Grimaldi! Requiescat in pace.