It's the full-length 1850 version, a weekly serial running to 732 pages with 89 dramatic illustrations. There were many versions of the Sweeney Todd story, but this one is the longest and quite possibly the best. Next door was a shop that sold excellent meat pies. Some of the customers who entered his shop were never seen again. In London in 1785 was a barber's shop run by Mr Sweeney Todd. If the above title seems unfamiliar, a summary of the plot might help. Wonderful and surprising history of Sweeney Todd RBC copy: Binding: Contemporary vertically ribbed green cloth spine lettered and ruled in gilt housed in green half morocco slipcase and chemise.

Publisher's advertisements printed vertically in the inner margins of individual numbers 1-4, the only numbers issued together, which have only one engraving. Illustrated with 89 unsigned wood engravings, one on the first page of each part, except for nos. New light on Sweeney Tood (2002), cited in Mack. The title of the first number ('The string of pearls, or, A sailor's gift : a romance of pecular interest') was revised to 'The string of pearls, or, The barber of Fleet Street : a domestic romance' in the course of publication, and a new preface was added 1847) in a greatly expanded version as a penny-part serial in 92 parts (the first four parts issued together) from about 1847-1848 then as a single volume in 1850. Parts are paged continuously each consists of eight pages, except the last, which has fourįirst published in 18 weekly installments by Edward Lloyd in The people's periodical and family library, issues 7-24 (21 Nov.

Sweeney Todd by James Malcolm Rymer