• Cover for A Tale of Two Cities (1905) — “At the Guillotine.”
• The Surrender of the Bastille

• “Pray control your agitation.”
• “Mr. Darnay, let me ask you a question.”
• “Killed!” shrieked the man
• Madame DeFarge knitted steadily
• “Patriots and friends, we are ready.”
• “Help, Gabelle! Help, every one.”
• “You are consigned to La Force.”
• “I know you, Evremonde!”
• “Change that coat for this of mine.”
• “To the guillotine, all aristocrats!”

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• Wood Engravings by John McLenan in Harper's Weekly Magazine (1859, New York)
• 25 Illustrations for Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities by Fred Barnard (from the Household Edition, 1874)
• List of Harry Furniss's Plates (1910) from Volume 13 in The Charles Dickens Library Edition.

Other Collins British Classics Illustrated by Arthur A. Dixon (1905-1910)

• Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1908)
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Last Days of Pompeii (1908)
• Charles Dickens, American Notes (1906)
• Charles Dickens, Christmas Books (1907)
• Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1905)
• Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit (1910)
• Charles Dickens, Stories and Sketches (1905)
• Charles Dickens, Reprinted Pieces (1906)
• George Eliot, Middlemarch (1908)
• Elizabeth Gasell, North and South (1905)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables (1905)
• Charles Reade, Hard Cash (1905)
• W. M. Thackeray, Henry Esmond (1905)

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Bentley, Nicolas, Michael Slater, and Nina Burgis. The Dickens Index. Oxford and New York: Oxford U. P., 1988.

Bolton, H. Philip. Dickens Dramatized. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1987.

Davis, Paul. Charles Dickens A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work. New York: Facts On File, 1998.

Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. All the Year Round. (30 April through 26 November 1859).

Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. Illustrated by John McLenan. Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization. 3 (7 May through 3 December 1859): 289-781.

Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. Illustrated by John McLenan. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, 1859.

Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859.

Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations. Diamond Edition. Illustrated by Sol Eytinge, Junior. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867.

Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. Illustrated by Fred Barnard. The Household Edition. 22 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1874. Vol. VIII.

Dickens, Charles. American Notes. Illustrated by A. A. Dixon with engraved title by Harry Furniss. London: Collins, 1905. Collins Pocket Edition, No. 35.

Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. Illustrated by A. A. Dixon. London: Collins, 1905. Collins Pocket Edition. (From the personal collection of George Gorniak, Editor of The Dickens Magazine.)

Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities, American Notes, and Pictures from Italy. Illustrated by Harry Furniss. Charles Dickens Library Edition. 18 vols. London: Educational Book Company, 1910. Vol. XIII.

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