The Spy's Funeral (facing p. 102) — Phiz's seventh serial illustration for Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. Steel engraving for Book II, Chapter XIV, "The Honest Tradesman" (originally in Part 4, September 1859). 10 cm high by 17.2 cm wide (4 by 6 ¾ inches), vignetted. Instalment No. 13 in the All the Year Round weekly numbers on 23 July. [Click on image to enlarge it.]
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Bibliography
Allingham, Philip V. "'Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities (1859) Illustrated: A Critical Reassessment of Hablot Knight Browne's Accompanying Plates." Dickens Studies. 33 (2003): 109-158.
Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. Illustrated by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne). London: Chapman and Hall, November 1859.
Sanders, Andrew. "Introduction" to Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Woodcock, George. "Introduction" to Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970.
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