He very quickly placed a chair beside the table and mounted upon it.

Phiz

Engraver: Edmund Evans (1826-1905)

1862

Steel-engraving

Framed engraving 12.8 cm (5 inches) high by 8.2 cm (3 ¼ inches) wide

Charles Lever's A Day's Ride; or, The Romance of Life, Chapter XI, facing p. 116 (1862; rpt., 1882).

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