The Grindstone

Felix O. C. Darley

1863

Photogravure

9.5 x 9 cm vignetted

Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, Household Edition, vol. 2 frontispiece.

This frontispiece refers to the scene in which the mob, in the midst of the September Massacres, sharpens its weapons in the courtyard of Tellson's Bank, Paris.

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