"I have never been able to see what they are, because one of the old ladies always sits before them; but they look, outside, like very old backgammon boards." — Book 5, chap. iv. The twenty-second and final volume of the Household Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens, John Forster's "Life of Charles Dickens" (1879) (original) (raw)

"I have never been able to see what they are, because one of the old ladies always sits before them; but they look, outside, like very old backgammon boards."

Fred Barnard

1879

Composite woodblock Engraving by the Dalziels

13.9 cm high by 10.6 cm wide (5 ½ by 4 ¼ inches), framed, 205

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