Headnote vignette: Anticipating Book I, "Recalled to Life," Chapter V, "The Wine-shop" — Dr. Manette released from his cell in the Bastille by an angel carrying keys.
Harper & Bros. house illustrator John McLenan
7 cm high by 4.3 cm wide (3 inches by 1 ¾ inches)
Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, Book I, Ch. 1, "The Period."
Harper's Weekly, Vol. III, No. 123 (7 May 1859): 289; moment realised in Chapter V, p. 326.
[This page begins the first installment of the novel, which All the Year Round published in Great Britain on 30 April 1859 — exactly a week earlier than Harper's number. This situation persisted until the very last number, with the thirty-first weekly part appearing in London n 26 November, but in New York on 3 December 1859.]
Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.
The illustration appears here courtesy of the E. J. Pratt Fine Arts Library, University of Toronto; the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
