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Paekakariki Press are reprinting Edward Lloyd’s 1838 Dickens parody, Oliver Twiss, using 19c letterpress techniques and making all the weekly parts available by subscription.
Oliver Twiss
Eventually Dickens’ publishers sued Edward Lloyd, being the largest target, accusing him of ‘fraudulent imitation’ for his Posthumous Papers of the Cadgers’ Club, but lost the case. Shortly afterwards, Dickens brought out Oliver Twist in weekly parts which was quickly followed by James Pattie and Edward Lloyd bringing out their own versions of the stories, called Oliver Twiss, satirising the state of the Poor Laws. Lloyd’s version was written by Thomas Peckett Prest (1810–1859) who was also responsible for the other Dickens parodies such as, David Copperful and Nickelas Nicklebery.
Paper from recycled fibres
We will be using the excellent ‘‘Redeem’’ paper from the Fenner Paper Company which returns to the paper-making processes of the early nineteenth century by using one hundred per cent recycled waste rather than new wood pulp and is produced without any secondary bleaching.
Fann Street Foundry
Our researches indicate that the type used by Lloyd for this publication was Bourgeois, No. 6 which appears in the 1828 Fry Foundry catalogue. Fry sold his business to Thorowgood in 1829 and it was moved to Fann-street. This type was made at a time when there was little standardization of sizes between foundries and considerably before the adoption of the American point system of the 1880s. The nearest equivalent we have found is Monotype’s Modern Series 1, 8.5 point set cast on a 9 point body. This achieves the same number of characters per line, similar line spacing and thus the same text per issue as the original.
As we prepare the text, we are correcting obvious typos, but otherwise retaining the spelling and punctuation from 1838.
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