Time and His Wife
Charles S. Reinhart
1876
Wood engraving
8 cm high by 12.4 cm wide (full-page, horizontally mounted)
The wood-engraved frontispiece illustrates p. 91 in "The City of the
Absent," in Charles Dickens's The Uncommercial
Traveller, the first series of these essays and sketches having appeared
in All the Year Round in 1860-61. The American
Household Edition, also containing Hard Times (1854)
and The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870), was published
by Harper and Brothers in 1876.
Scanned image and text by
Philip V. Allingham