"My son, sir, little Wackford. What do you think of him, sir?"
Sir John Gilbert
1861
10.2 x 8.4 cm vignetted
Photogravure
Frontispiece to the third volume of Dickens's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, in the W. A. Townsend (New York) Household Edition (1861-71).
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Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham from his own collection.