"The Reader's Passport" by Samuel Palmer, RWS (1805-1881) (original) (raw)

The Reader's Passport

Samuel Palmer, RWS (1805-1881)

Wood-engraving

13.4 cm by 7.4 cm (5 ¼ by 2 ¾ inches), framed.

Charles Dickens's Pictures from Italy (1846), page 1.

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Passage Illustrated: "The Reader's Passport"

If the readers of this volume will be so kind as to take their credentials for the different places which are the subject of its author’s reminiscences, from the Author himself, perhaps they may visit them, in fancy, the more agreeably, and with a better understanding of what they are to expect.

Many books have been written upon Italy, affording many means of studying the history of that interesting country, and the innumerable associations entwined about it. I make but little reference to that stock of information; not at all regarding it as a necessary consequence of my having had recourse to the storehouse for my own benefit, that I should reproduce its easily accessible contents before the eyes of my readers. [Chapter I, "The Reader's Passport," pp. 1-2]

Bibliography

Dickens, Charles. "The Reader's Passport." Pictures from Italy. The Vignette Illustrations on Wood, by Samuel Palmer. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. Pp. 1-4.

Dickens, Charles. Pictures from Italy and American Notes for General Circulation. Illustrated by Marcus Stone. The Illustrated Library Edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1874.

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Last modified 4 July 2023