Twenty-five Illustrations for Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities" by Fred Barnard (from the Household Edition, 1874) (original) (raw)

• Cover for A Tale of Two Cities
• Frontispiece: The Trial of Evremonde
• Title-page vignette [figure of a female Jacobin]
• She curtsied to him.... He made her another bow
• The Wine-shop
• "What is this?"
• Messrs. Cruncher and Son
• The Lion and the Jackal
• And smoothing her rich hair with as much pride
• He stooped a little, and with his tattered blue cap. . . .
• "Drive him fast to his tomb!"
• "Think now and then that there is a man . . ."
• "It is frightful, messieurs."
• Saint Antoine
• Still, the Doctor, with shaded forehead
• Dragged, and struck at, and stifled
• Among the talkers was Stryver, of the King's Bench
• Some registers were lying open on a desk
• The Grindstone
• The Carmagnole
• Here Mr. Lorry became aware
• Twice he put his hand to the wound in his breast
• As he was drawn away, his wife released him
• His head and throat were bare"
• "You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer," said Miss Pross
• The Third Tumbrel

Additional Resources: Illustrations, 1859-1910

• Some Discussions of Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities
• A Tale of Two Cities(1859) — the last Dickens novel Phiz Illustrated
• A Note on Phiz's Wrapper Design for Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities (1859) in Monthly Serialisation
• Phiz's original serial illustrations for A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
• John McLenan's serial illustrations for A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
• Sol Eytinge, Jr.'s Diamond Edition illustrations for A Tale of Two Cities (1867)
• A. A. Dixon's illustrations for A Tale of Two Cities (1905)
• Harry Furniss's illustrations for A Tale of Two Cities (1910)

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Bibliography

Allingham, Philip V. "'Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities (1859) Illustrated: A Critical Reassessment of Hablot Knight Browne's Accompanying Plates." Dickens Studies. 33 (2003): 109-158.

Dickens, Charles. The Dickens Souvenir Book. London: Chapman & Hall, 1912.

Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. Illustrated by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne). London: Chapman and Hall, November 1859.

_______. A Tale of Two Cities. Illustrated by John McLenan. Harper's Weekly. (24 September 1859): 621; (5 October 1859): 699; (29 October 1859): 701; (19 November 1859): 748.

_______. A Tale of Two Cities. Illustrated by Sol Eytinge, Jr. The Diamond Edition. 16 vols. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. XIII.

_______. A Tale of Two Cities. Illustrated by Fred Barnard. The Household Edition. 22 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1874. VIII.

_______. (1859). A Tale of Two Cities, ed. Andrew Sanders. World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980.

_______. A Tale of Two Cities (1859), ed. George Woodcock. Illustrated by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne). Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970.

Hammerton, J. A. The Dickens Picture-Book. The Charles Dickens Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens. London: Educational Book, 1910.

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