Title-page vignette: Asleep in the blacking factory

Fred Barnard

1870s

Woodblock engraving by the Dalziels

8.5 x 6.1 cm (3 ¼ by 5 ¼ inches), vignetted.

Frontispiece for Forster's Life of Charles Dickens in the Household Edition: Dickens as a boy having fallen asleep over a desk, pasting labels

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Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham

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