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The Household edition of Oliver Twist was published in 1871 and features 28 illustrations by James Mahoney.

Title Page and Vignette

Oliver asks for More

"Liberal terms, Mr. Sowerberry, liberal terms!"

Oliver Rather Astonishes Noah

"Hullo, my covey! What's the row?"

"Stop Thief!"

"What's become the boy?"

"You are on the scent are you, Nancy?"

"A Beadle! A parish Beadle, or I'll eat my head"

"The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor"

Sikes, with Oliver's hand still in his, softly approached the low porch

"Directly I leave go of you, do your work. Hark!"

"Fagin!" whispered a voice close to his ear

"Don't sigh, Mrs. Corney," said Mr. Bumble

Just send somebody out to relieve my mate, will you, young man?"

When it became quite dark, and they returned home, the young lady would sit down to the piano, and play some pleasant air

Looking round, he saw that it was a post-chaise, driven at great speed

"A few — a very few — will suffice, Rose," said the young man, drawing his chair towards her.

"Were you looking for me," he said, "when you peered in at the window?"

The Evidence Destroyed

Then, stooping softly over the bed, she kissed the robber's lips.

"Look there! Those are the lights of London"

"What is this?" inquired one of the magistrates. "A pick-pocketing case, Your Worship"

When she was about the same distance in advance as she had been before, he slipped quietly down

He moved, backwards, towards the door: dragging the dog with him

The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery © Michael John Goodman 2023

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