"In a transport of presence of mind and fury, he instantly caught him up in both hands, and three him over his own head out into the entry, where the check-takers received him like a game at ball" — Book 10, chap. ii, "Incident Before a Reading."

The twenty-sixth illustration in the twenty-second volume of the Household Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens: John Forster's Life of Charles Dickens (1872, rpt. 1879) (original) (raw)

"In a transport of presence of mind and fury, he instantly caught him up in both hands, and three him over his own head out into the entry, where the check-takers received him like a game at ball."

Fred Barnard

1879

Woodblock engraving by the Dalziels

13.9 by 10.9 cm (5 ½ by 4 ¼ inches), page 397, framed

Book 10, chap. ii. Forster's Life of Charles Dickens in volume XXII of the Household Edition.

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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