Slide set: The chimes: goblin chimes (story: Newton & Co., 24 slides, n.d.)
Newton & Co., England
in stock of Newton & Co., dates unknown
Charles Dickens and Robert Scott, Goblin chimes (London: York & Son, n.d.)
reissued as The chimes (story: Newton & Co., 36 slides, 1930-1937)
see generic title The chimes (generic set title – 3 different versions are known)
reissue of The chimes: goblin chimes (story: York & Son, 24 slides, in/before 1888)
LEECH, John (1817-1864) – creator of source image(s), slides 2, 9
MACLISE, Daniel, R.A. (1806-1870) – creator of source image(s), slide 1
The illustrations are clearly based, some quite closely, on those by John Leech and Daniel Maclise (among others) for the original 1844 edition of Dickens's The Chimes. However some have been quite extensively redrawn, and others do not appear in that edition at all. Unless they are from a later edition, it is possible that the images are a set commissioned by York & Son from an unidentified artist.
Many thanks to Elizabeth Grimshaw for pointing out this connection.
23 slides known to exist in private collection
Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 14 July 2025
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