"Why, what the 'tarnal!" cried the Captain. "Well! I do admire at this, I do!" (1870s). Fortieth illustration by Fred Barnard in the Household Edition for Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit (Chapter XXXIII), page 265. [Their former landlord at the National Hotel in Watertoast, Captain Kedgick, is vastly amused that Martin and Mark, now fully recovered from malarial fever, have cheated the land-speculators by remaining very much alive and leaving the swamp of Eden rather than being buried there.] 10.6 cm x 13.7 cm. Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham. [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the person who scanned the image and (2) link your document to this URL. Click on the image to enlarge it.]
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Dickens, Charles. Martin Chuzzlewit. Works of Charles Dickens. Household Edition. 55 vols. Illustrated by F. O. C. Darley and John Gilbert. New York: Sheldon and Co., 1863. Vols. 1-4.
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_____. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, with 59 illustrations by Fred Barnard. Household Edition, volume 2. London: Chapman and Hall, 1871-1880. The copy of the Household Edition from which this picture was scanned was the gift of George Gorniak, proprietor of The Dickens Magazine, whose subject for the fifth series, beginning in January 2008, was this novel.
Dickens, Charles. Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. Il. Harry Furniss. The Charles Dickens Library Edition. 18 vols. London: Educational Book, 1910. Vol. 7.
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