The Mail (facing p. 5) — Phiz's initial serial illustration for Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, June 1859. Steel engraving for Book I, Chapter 2, "The Mail" (originally in monthly Part 1). 8.1 cm high by 15.2 cm wide (3 ½ by 5 ⅞ inches), vignetted. Instalment No. 1 in the All the Year Round weekly numbers on 30 April. [Click on image to enlarge it.]
Related Materials
- A Tale of Two Cities (1859) — the last Dickens's novel "Phiz" Illustrated
- Costume Notes on A Tale of Two Cities
- List of Plates
- John McLenan's illustration in Harper's Weekly Magazine (New York)
- 25 Illustrations for Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities by Fred Barnard (from the household Edition, 1874)
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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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