Some registers were lying open on a desk and an officer of a coarse dark aspect presided over these

"Some registers were lying open on a desk and an officer of a coarse dark aspect presided over these" by Fred Barnard. 1870s. 5 x 5.9 inches. Charles Darnay before the tribunal from Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, Book 3, chap. i. Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

The copy of The Dickens Souvenir Book (p. 209) from which this image was scanned is in the collection of the Main Library of The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C.

References

Dickens, Charles. The Dickens Souvenir Book. London: 1912.

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