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22-644: Hall was born in London in 1805, son of John Hall and his wife Elizabeth. His brother William Hall was a founder of the publisher Chapman and Hall . He was articled to John Booth, bookseller, of Duke Street, Portman Square , London. He lived a short time in Germany, and was afterwards with Hodges and Smith of Dublin. He was appointed librarian of the Athenaeum Club in 1833, on the recommendation of his relative Edward Magrath, who succeeded Michael Faraday as

44-433: A cheque for £500 as a bonus above the agreed payment. By the end of its monthly publications, Pickwick was selling over 40,000 copies a month and Dickens received a further £2,000 bonus with Chapman & Hall making about £14,000 from the publication. Charles Dickens attended Hall's wedding in 1840, an event he fictionalized for Sketches of Young Couples which Chapman and Hall published in 1840. There Mr Chirrup (Hall)

66-458: A drawing of John Gilpin , he abandoned engraving in the following year and began other artistic work, with the ultimate object of becoming a painter. In early 1836, he met Charles Dickens. It was at the time when Dickens was looking for someone to illustrate Pickwick . Browne became the illustrator of his little pamphlet Sunday under Three Heads . In the original edition of Pickwick , issued in shilling monthly parts from early in 1836 until

88-590: Is described as having the smartness and ‘the brisk, quick manner of a small bird’. After Dickens spent many "pleasant, playful evenings" at their house in Norwood. Dickens also arranged for his friends such as Thomas Carlyle to be published by Chapman and Hall and for John Forster to become the literary advisor to the company. William Hall died suddenly at Chapman & Hall's office at 186 Strand, London, in March 1847, aged 46. Charles Dickens attended his burial on

110-472: Is known of his early life. He was born in London, the son of John Hall and his wife, Elizabeth. His brother Spencer Hall became librarian of the Athenaeum Club . With Edward Chapman (1804–1880) he founded a bookselling and publishing business at 186 Strand, London, in 1830, having bought out a small journal called Chat Of The Week . According to Robert L. Patten, by 1835 they were publishing illustrated fiction and magazines issued weekly or monthly. Chapman

132-408: Is one of the most accomplished of the artist's works. Most of Browne's work was etched on steel plates because these yielded a far larger edition than copper. Browne was annoyed at some of his etchings being transferred to stone by the publishers and printed as lithographic reproductions. Partly with the view to prevent this treatment of his work, he employed a machine to rule a series of lines over

154-464: Is thought to have had the literary skills to be able to spot a saleable book while Hall had the business acumen to sell it. In 1835, Chapman and Hall published Squib Annual of Poetry, Politics, and Personalities by the illustrator Robert Seymour . In 1836 Seymour proposed to William Hall that Chapman & Hall should publish a series of sporting illustrations by Seymour with short written sketches linking them together in some way. Further he developed

176-598: The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition and 15 June 1815 ( Dictionary of National Biography ). A copy of the programme from his burial service, which is still owned by the Browne family, says he was born 10 July 1815. When he was 7 years old, his father William Browne abandoned the family, changed his name to Breton and sailed with embezzled funds to Philadelphia where he became known for his watercolour paintings. William Browne

198-444: The basis of his recently published and successful Sketches by Boz , also in a monthly periodical format. Eventually, this became The Pickwick Papers , and concerned the adventures of Samuel Pickwick and his friends. Following the suicide of Robert Seymour, Dickens suggested to William Hall that Hablot Knight Browne should be the new illustrator. In May 1837, The Pickwick Papers sold more than 20,000 copies and Hall sent Dickens

220-454: The end of 1837, the first seven plates were drawn by Robert Seymour , who committed suicide in April 1836. The next two plates were by Robert William Buss . Browne and William Makepeace Thackeray visited the publishers' office with specimens of their work for Dickens's inspection. The novelist preferred Browne. Browne's first two etched plates for Pickwick were signed "Nemo", but the third

242-619: The end of his life. He designed the wrapper which was used for eighteen months from January 1842. He also contributed to Punch's Pocket Books . In addition to his work for Dickens, Phiz illustrated more than twenty of Charles Lever 's novels (among them The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer , Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon , Jack Hinton, the Guardsman and The Knight of Gwynne ). He also illustrated Harrison Ainsworth 's and Frank Smedley 's novels. Mervyn Clitheroe by Ainsworth

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264-500: The first secretary of the club. The members had been only three years in possession of their house in Pall Mall , so that Hall was connected with the early organization of the library. He issued a pamphlet on the classification of the library in 1858, followed three years later by a letter to John Murray suggesting an edition of Shakespeare with literary criticisms. Hall's other publications were mainly of an antiquarian character. He

286-541: The hero. They later made several other journeys together to facilitate the illustrator's work. Other Dickens characters illustrated by Phiz were Squeers, Micawber, Guppy, Major Bagstock, Mrs Gamp, Tom Pinch and David Copperfield. Of the ten books by Dickens which Phiz illustrated, he is most known for David Copperfield , Pickwick , Dombey and Son , Martin Chuzzlewit and Bleak House . Browne made several drawings for Punch in his early days and also towards

308-420: The idea of a "Nimrod Club" of sporting people having adventures as the framework for the sketches and illustrations. Chapman agreed that the work should be issued in monthly parts, with descriptive text by Charles Dickens . However, Dickens, then only 22, was not the first choice as writer. Charled Whitehead, the senior editor in the publishing house, did not have time to complete the work so recommended Dickens on

330-401: The plate in order to obtain what appeared to be a tint; when manipulated with acid this tint gave an effect somewhat resembling mezzotint , which at that time it was found practically impossible to transfer to stone. Browne was in continual employment by publishers until 1867, when he suffered an illness that caused a degree of paralysis. After recovering, he produced many woodcuts. In 1878 he

352-542: The western side of Highgate Cemetery (plot no.539). On Hall's death, Edward Chapman 's cousin Frederic Chapman began his progress through the ranks of the company, eventually becoming a partner in 1858 and sole proprietor on Edward Chapman's retirement from Chapman & Hall in 1866. In the film The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) Hall was played by David McSavage . Hablot Knight Browne Hablot Knight Browne (10 July 1815 – 8 July 1882)

374-546: Was a British artist and illustrator. Well known by his pen name, Phiz , he illustrated books by Charles Dickens , Charles Lever , Augustus Septimus Mayhew and Harrison Ainsworth . Of Huguenot ancestry, Hablot Knight Browne was born in England, in Lambeth (near London) on Kennington Lane. He was the fourteenth of Catherine and William Loder Browne's fifteen children. According to his biographer Valerie Browne Lester, Phiz

396-608: Was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1858. Under his management the library of the Athenæum Club gradually became one of the choicest collections of books of reference in London. He retired after forty-two years' service, owing to failing health, in May 1875, when he was elected an honorary member of the club and voted a pension. Hall died on 21 August 1875 at Tunbridge Wells , in his seventieth year. His own library

418-562: Was in fact the illegitimate son of his putative eldest sister Kate and Captain Nicholas Hablot of Napoleon 's Imperial Guard . There is some uncertainty regarding the exact date of birth. 10 July 1815 is the date given by Valerie Browne Lester, his great-great-granddaughter. John Buchanan-Brown in his book Phiz!: Illustrator of Dickens' World says 12 July 1815. The date on his Christening record of 21 December 1815 at St Mary's Church, Lambeth, Surrey, England gives 11 June 1815, as does

440-441: Was signed "Phiz", a pseudonym which was retained in future. When asked to explain why he chose this name he answered that the change from "Nemo" to "Phiz" was made to harmonize better with Dickens's "Boz". Phiz developed the character Sam Weller graphically just as Seymour had developed Pickwick. Dickens and Phiz became good friends and in 1838 travelled together to Yorkshire to see the schools of which Nicholas Nickleby became

462-756: Was sold by Sothebys on 26 June 1876. Hall published: He contributed to The Archaeological Journal , to the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries , as well as to The Art Journal and other periodicals. Attribution William Hall (publisher) William Hall (19 October 1800 – 7 March 1847) was a British publisher who, with Edward Chapman , founded Chapman & Hall , publishers for Charles Dickens (from 1840 until 1844 and again from 1858 until 1870), William Thackeray , Robert Browning , Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Anthony Trollope , Eadweard Muybridge and Evelyn Waugh among others. Little

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484-400: Was then declared dead by his wife Catherine. Thomas Moxon, husband of William's sister Ann Loder Browne, helped to support the family, who were left badly off. Browne was apprenticed to William Finden , an engraver , in whose studio he obtained his only artistic education. However, he was unsuited for engraving, and having during 1833 secured an important prize from the Society of Arts for

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