Ornamental holly-sprig: headpiece for "List of Illustrations" by Sol Eytinge, Jr. in Dickens's A Christmas Carol in Prose: being a ghost story of Christmas, p. 7, in the Ticknor and Fields (Boston) 1869 edition (published at Christmas 1868). Wood engraving, 1.6 high x 4.8 cm. Eytinge has provided such artistic elaboration to make this "second edition" of A Christmas Carol a commodity text for the times, such decorative features being common in annuals and seasonal "gift-books" since the 1840s.
Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham. [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the person who scanned the image and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one. in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]
Bibliography
Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol in Prose: being a Ghost Story of Christmas. Il. Sol Eytinge, Jr. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1868.
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