"I beg your pardon, sir," he answered, "but if it hadn't been for my pipe, I should have been nowhere." — Book 6, chap. vi. Extra illustration for Forster's Life of Charles Dickens in the twenty-two volume Household Edition by Fred Barnard. 1879. Composite woodblock engraving by Dalziels, 10.7 x 14.1 cm. or 4 ¼ inches high by 5 ⅝ inches wide, framed.
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Bibliography
Barnard, Fred, et al. Scenes and Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens; being eight hundred and sixty-six drawings by Fred Barnard, Hablot K. Browne (Phiz), J. Mahoney [and others] printed from the original woodblocks engraved for "The Household Edition." London: Chapman & Hall, 1908. P. 581.
The copy of the book from which these pictures were scanned is in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
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