The Sea Rises (facing p. 150) — Phiz's tenth serial illustration for Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. Steel engraving for Book II, Chapter XXI, "Echoing Footsteps" (originally in Part 5, October 1859). 9.5 cm high by 18.3 cm wide (3 ¾ by 7 ¼ inches), vignetted. Instalment No. 19 in the All the Year Round weekly numbers on 3 September. [Click on image to enlarge it.]

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Allingham, Philip V. "'Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities (1859) Illustrated: A Critical Reassessment of Hablot Knight Browne's Accompanying Plates." Dickens Studies. 33 (2003): 109-158.

Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. Illustrated by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne). London: Chapman and Hall, November 1859.

Sanders, Andrew. "Introduction" to Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Woodcock, George. "Introduction" to Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970.


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