Engraved Title-Page — second illustration for Charles Lever's "The Daltons, or, Three Roads in Life" by "Phiz" (1852)

Engraved Title-Page

Phiz

Engraver: Dalziel

1852

Steel-engraving

Vignette 10.1 cm (4 inches) high by 8.4 cm (3 ¼ inches) wide

Charles Lever's The Daltons, or, Three Roads in Life, title-page vignette and engraved title (1852 edition; rpt., 1872).

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Prefatory Note

To LORD METHUEN.

MY DEAR METHUEN, Some idle folk have pretended that certain living characters have been depicted under the fictitious names of these volumes. There is, I assure you, but one personality contained in it, and that is of a right true-hearted Englishman, hospitable, and manly in all his dealings; and to him I wish to dedicate my book, in testimony not only of the gratitude which, in common with all his countrymen here, I feel to be his due, but in recognition of many happy hours passed in his society, and the honor of his friendship. The personality begins and ends with this dedication, which I beg you to accept of, and am

Ever yours faithfully,

CHARLES LEVER.

PALAZZO CAPPONI, FLORENCE, Feb. 28, 1852.

Other Title-page Vignettes by Phiz (1844-1863)

At the Finger Post in Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit (July 1844)
Rob the Grinder Reading with Captain Cuttle in Dickens's Dombey and Son (April 1848)
Little Em'ly at the Houseboat in Dickens's David Copperfield (November 1850)
Joe the Crossing-sweeper in Dickens's Bleakhouse (1853)
The Beacon Hill in Ainsworth's The Spendthrift (January 1855)
Amy at the door of the Marshalsea in Dickens's Little Dorrit (June 1857)
Pursuing the Gipsy on the River in Ainsworth's Mervyn Clitheroe (June 1858)
Scarecrow Symbol in Lever's Davenport Dunn (April 1859)
In the Bastille in Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities (November 1859)
Polly Dill on Horseback in Lever's Barrington (1863)

Bibliography

Browne, John Buchanan. Phiz! Illustrator of Dickens' World. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1978.

Downey, Edmund. Charles Lever: His Life in Letters. 2 vols. london; William Blackwood, 1906.

Fitzpatrick, W. J. The Life of Charles Lever. London: Downey, 1901.

Lester, Valerie Browne. Phiz: The Man Who Drew Dickens. London: Chatto and Windus, 2004.

Lever, Charles. The Daltons, or, Three Roads in Life. Illustrated by "Phiz" (Hablot Knight Browne). London: Chapman and Hall, 1852, rpt. 1872.

Lever, Charles James. The Daltons, or, Three Roads in Life. http://www.gutenberg.org//files/32061/32061-h/32061-h.htm

Skinner, Anne Maria. Charles Lever and Ireland. University of Liverpool. PhD dissertation. May 2019.

Stevenson, Lionel. Dr. Quicksilver: The Life of Charles Lever. New York: Russell & Russell, 1939, rpt. 1969.

_______. "The Domestic Scene." The English Novel: A Panorama. Cambridge, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin and Riverside, 1960.

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