Note 5 — ContentsCHAPTER II.
Reading edition
When the purchase was completed, a curious making-up of accounts proceeded between the parties as to the wood-blocks which were to accompany the paper. These accounts, referring to the titles of the engravings, read curiously enough. Here is a specimen:—
No. 22. £12 10 6
Deduct Collared Beef 4 6 £12 6 0
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No. 25.
Brown's wrapper (i.e. Frontispiece drawn by "Phiz"--Hablôt K. Browne) 15 12 6 12 12 0
Deduct 2 7 0
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13 5 6
No. 32.
Deduct. £ s. p. Add. £ s. d.
Bald head 0 8 0 Concert-piece 0 5 0
Great Sale in Beer 0 4 0 Collared Beef 0 4 6
Highwayman 0 5 0 Tall lady 0 10 0
Leg of Muttone 0 5 0 Tall lady 0 8 0
Turning over a Page 0 3 0 Adder-up 0 5 0 14 18 0
Betrayed 0 5 0
Letter P 0 15 0
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£2 7 0
These cuts were for the most part drawn by Brine, Hine, and Newman.