Watkins Tottle [The Courtship of Gabriel Parsons] — Cruikshank's frontispiece for Dickens's "Sketches by Boz," Cheap Edition (1850) (original) (raw)

Watkins Tottle [The Courtship of Gabriel Parsons]

George Cruikshank

1850

Wood-engraving

10 x 8.8 cm, vignetted

Chapter 1 of "A Passage in the Life of Mr. Watkins Tottle," Chapter 10 in "Tales" by Charles Dickens in Sketches by Boz, originally published in the January 1835 number of The Monthly Magazine; illustration facing title-page of the Cheap Edition (1850).

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

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