Dickens and His Illustrators / Cruikshank, Seymour, Buss, "Phiz," Cattermole, Leech, Doyle, Stanfield, Maclise, Tenniel, Frank Stone, Landseer, Palmer, Topham, Marcus Stone, and Luke Fildes / 2nd. Ed.

Plate I
CHARLES DICKENS From a scarce Lithograph by SOL. EYTINGE, Junr.
And so as Tiny Tim observed, God bless us every one! Charles Dickens
This Portrait was published during the Novelist's last visit to America (1867-68), by Fields, Osgood & Co., of Boston, their advertisement describing it as an Authentic Portrait of Charles Dickens, drawn on stone by S. Eytinge, Jr., whose Illustrations of Dickens's Novels have been so popular. The late Mr. J. R. Osgood did not recall any actual sitting for the Portrait, but remembers that Eytinge often saw Dickens while making the drawing. The impression from which the present reproduction was made is particularly interesting on account of the quotation from A Christmas Carol in the autograph of Dickens.
Lent by Mr. Stuart M. Samuel.
BY FREDERIC G. KITTON AUTHOR OF CHARLES DICKENS BY PEN AND PENCIL, ETC.
WITH TWENTY-TWO PORTRAITS AND FACSIMILES OF SEVENTY ORIGINAL DRAWINGS NOW REPRODUCED FOR THE FIRST TIME
SECOND EDITION
LONDON GEORGE REDWAY 1899
TO CHARLES DICKENS'S DAUGHTER KATE PERUGINI THESE NOTES UPON THE ILLUSTRATIONS TO HER FATHER'S WRITINGS are respectfully dedicated BY THE AUTHOR

In the matter of pictorial embellishment, the writings of Charles Dickens may be regarded as occupying a unique position. The original issues alone present a remarkable array of illustrations; and when we remember the innumerable engravings specially prepared for subsequent editions, as well as for independent publication, we are fain to confess that, in this respect at least, the works of Boz take precedence of those of any other novelist. These designs, too, are of particular interest, inasmuch as they are representative of nearly every branch of the art of the book-illustrator; both the pencil of the draughtsman and the needle of the etcher have been requisitioned, while the brush of the painter has depicted for us many striking scenes culled from the pages of Dickens.