"The Parish Engine" — Cruikshank's illustration for Dickens's "The Beadle. The Parish Engine. The Schoolmaster," Chapter 1 in "Sketches by Boz" (original) (raw)

The Parish Engine

George Cruikshank

1836

Etching on copper

boz4.5 x 9.2 cm vignetted

Chapter 1, "The Beadle. The Parish Engine. The Schoolmaster" — the first chapter in "Our Parish," by Charles Dickens in Sketches by Boz, First Series (8 February 1836), facing p. 1.

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

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