"The Beadle" — Sol Eytinge, Jr.'s first illustration for Dickens's "Sketches by Boz" (original) (raw)

The Beadle

Sol Eytinge, Jr.

1867

Wood-engraving

10 x 7.9 cm (framed)

Dickens's Christmas Books & Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People (Diamond Edition).

After the heart-warming, sentimental seasonal tales which Dickens wrote between 1843 and 1848, the Diamond Edition commemorating Dickens's Second American Reading Tourfeatures seven scenes from Dickens's earliest work, "Our Parish," the twenty-five chapters from "Scenes," and twelve chapters from "Characters," the text established by Chapman and Hall in 1839.

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Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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