Charles Dickens: The First Two Hundred Years. An Exhibition from the Stephen Weeks Collection.

January 19-May 12, 2012

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, the DeGolyer Library will display over 200 items, including all of Dickens’ major works in original editions, as well as prints, drawings, letters, later editions, piracies, translations, adaptations, and advertising ephemera. Free and open to the public, M-F, 8:30-5. A catalogue of the exhibition will be available for purchase. School groups and AP English classes are encouraged to schedule tours in advance.

Top banner image: "Arrival of the Great Western Steam Ship Off New York ..." [1838]. Fine line engraving, colored by hand. A very rare New York view that features several characters from Dickens’ Pickwick Papers. In Goodspeed’s Book Shop’s 250th catalogue (1935), this print was listed as being "one of three known copies." The engraving may have been published in 1842, when Dickens was in New York, to record his visit to America. From the Collection of Stephen Weeks.