"It ain't a smokin' your way, Sir, I says." from the Household Edition of Forster's "Life of Charles Dickens"

It ain't a smokin' your way, Sir, I says

Fred Barnard

1870s

Woodblock Engraving by the Dalziels

14.1 x 11 cm

Full caption: "It ain't a smokin' your way, Sir, I says;" he says, "No more it is, coachman, and as long as it smokes anybody else's way, it's all right and I'm agreeable."

Pickwick Papers, Book 3, chap. viii. Extra illustration for The Life of Charles Dickens in the Household Edition.

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham

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References

Barnard, Fred, et al. Scenes and Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens; being eight hundred and sixty-six drawings by Fred Barnard, Hablot K. Browne (Phiz), J. Mahoney [and others] printed from the original woodblocks engraved for "The Household edition". London: Chapman & Hall, 1908. Page 564.

The copy of the book from which these pictures were scanned is in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Last modified 10 September 2009