Welcome to The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery. Here you will find over 2000 illustrations taken from the most important (and interesting) illustrated editions of Charles Dickens's works from 1836 to 1912 (the centenary of Dickens's birth). The Gallery contains all the original illustrations, the Household Edition (the first edition commissioned by Dickens's publishers Chapman and Hall after his death and the first to feature all-new illustrations), the Library Edition from 1910 with five hundred illustrations by Harry Furniss, and the "Pears" Edition of the Christmas Books from 1912. Each page contains some information about the novel or collection in question, but If you would like to know more about the Gallery, head to the 'About' section where you can also read a new essay about the importance of the original illustrations to Dickens's work and to wider Victorian print culture, as well as a detailed discussion on the Christmas Books.

 

Merry Christmas!