Edward Chapman was a British publisher who, with William Hall founded Chapman & Hall, publishers for Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Anthony Trollope,
Chapman & Hall published Charles Dickens for much of his career
Samuel Pickwick is a fictional character and the main protagonist in The Pickwick Papers, the first novel by author Charles Dickens. One of the author's most famous and loved creations, Pickwick is a
Mr.Pickwick illustrated by 'Kyd' (1889)
Mr Pickwick as illustrated by Harold Copping in 1924
Robert Seymour illustration depicting Pickwick addressing the Pickwick Club (1836)
Mrs Bardell faints into the arms of Mr Pickwick - illustration by Frank Reynolds (1910)