"Under the Plane Tree" — Frontispiece by "Phiz" for "A Tale of Two Cities" (Nov., 1859)

Under the Plane Tree

Phiz

Dalziel

November 1859

Steel-engraving

13 cm high by 10.2 cm wide (5 ⅛ by 4 inches), vignetted, for Book II, Chapter VI, "Hundred of People."

Source: A Tale of Two Cities (November 1859).

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Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

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Related Materials

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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