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Dickens and His Illustrators

Note 19 — HABLÔT K. BROWNE ("Phiz")

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As early as 1837 Browne designed (as an advertisement for Bentley) a little woodcut (now very rare) in which he depicted Charles Dickens leading by the lappel of his waistcoat a burly and perspiring porter, who is seen carrying a huge bale of copies of Bentley's Miscellany, of which magazine the novelist was then the editor.

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