The nine plates are of two distinct types and sizes: Gilbert's facing plates which begin each number of the magazine, and Eytinge's and White's integrated plates that have been dropped into the first page of text, as were the illustrations for the Christmas Book The Chimes in 1844. The second type invariably occurs on the first page of an instalment, although the events it describes are several pages later.
| Plate Number | Date | Size | Subject |
| January 1868 | 8" x 5" | "Charles Dickens: Author of LITTLE NELL, PAUL DOMBEY AND POOR JO and writer of "A Holiday Romance" for OUR YOUNG FOLKS." (facing p. 1) | |
| January 1868 | 1.5" x 3.5" | Tinkling and Redforth in ambush (p. 1) | |
| January 1868 | 8" x 5" | "Redforth and the Pirate Colonel" Drawn by John Gilbert.] [See A Holiday Romancepage 2 (facing p. 16). | |
| March 1868 | 1.5" x 3.5" | Princess Alicia (p. [12]9) | |
| March 1868 | 8" x 5" | "The Princess Alicia." Drawn by John Gilbert.] [See A Holiday Romance, page 133 (facing p. 133) | |
| April 1868 | 8" x 5" | "The Pirate Colonel and His Captive." Drawn by John Gilbert.] [See A Holiday Romance, page 196 (facing p. 193). | |
| April 1868 | 1.5" x 3.5" | Captain Boldheart and a whale (p. 13 [193]) | |
| May 1868 | 8" x 5" | "The Obstinate Boys." Drawn by John Gilbert.] [See A Holiday Romance, page 261 (facing p. 17 [257]). | |
| May 1868 | 1.5" x 3.5" | The two girls and wilful adults (p. 17 257]) |
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