Biographical Materials

Working Methods

• "Phiz" — artist, wood-engraver, etcher, and printer
• "Taking The Wrappers Off" — Covers for the Monthly Serials, April 1836 to September 1870
• Phiz's Dark Plate Etchings for Mervyn Clitheroe (1851-8) and Davenport Dunn (1857-9)
• Etching, Wood-egraving, or Lithography in Phiz's Illustration for A Tale of Two Cities?
• Phiz: 'A Good Hand at a Horse' — A Gallery and Brief Overview of Phiz's Illustrations of Horses for Defoe, Dickens, Lever, and Ainsworth (1836-64)
• Michael Steig's Dickens and Phiz (1978)
• Did Phiz etch his own plates for Dickens? Robert Young: Lifelong Assistant to "Phiz" — illustrator, wood-engraver, and etcher

Works by Charles Dickens, including ten novels (1836-74)

• Sunday under Three Heads (1836)
• Pickwick Papers (35 plates, taking over from over Seymour)
• Sketches of Young Gentlemen (1838) and Sketches of Young Couples (1840)
• Nicholas Nickleby (39 plates plus wrapper)
• The Old Curiosity Shop
• Master Humphrey's Clock (with George Cattermole) 11 plates (October 1840)
• Barnaby Rudge (with George Cattermole: 61 plates, plus initial-letter vignettes)
• Martin Chuzzlewit (40 plates plus sketches)
• Dombey and Son (40 plates plus sketches)
• David Copperfield (42 plates plus sketches)
• Bleak House (39 plates plus sketches)
• Little Dorrit (40 plates plus sketches)
• "The Great Wingleberry Duel" in Sketches by Boz (1858)
• A Tale of Two Cities (16 plates and wrapper plus discussions)
• Pickwick Papers (57 plates, in the 1874 Household Edition)

Works by Charles Lever (1840-63)

• Phiz and Lever: A Fascination with Napoleon (1840-43; six plates)
• The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer (1838)
• Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon (1840-41; 44 plates)
• Jack Hinton, The Guardsman (1843; 26 etchings and 9 wood-engravings)
• Tom Burke of "Ours" (1843-44; 44 etchings)
• Roland Cashel (1848-1849; 40 engravings)
• The O'Donoghue; A Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago (1845; 26 engravings)
• The Knight of Gwynne (January 1846 — July 1847; 40 engravings)
• The Daltons, or, The Three Roads in Life (1852; 48 plates)

• The Martins of Cro' Martin (1854-56, rpt. 1872; 40 engravings)
• Davenport Dunn: A Man of Our Time (1859; 44 plates)
• A Day's Ride; or, The Romance of Life (1862; 4 plates)
• Barrington (1863; 26 plates)

Ainsworth's Novels: Old St. Paul's (1841) through Ovingdean Grange (1860)

• Auriol or The Elixir of Life (1844-5: 2 plates):
• Seizure of Ebba frontispiece
• The Ruined House on Vauxhall Road
• "Drink the Plague!" frontispiece for Old St. Paul's (1841)
• The Dead-Cart, title-page vignette for Old St. Paul's
• Mervyn Clitheroe (1857-8: 24 plates)
• The Spendthrift (1855-7: 8 plates)
• Ovingdean Grange (1860: 8 plates)

Daniel Defoe's Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1864)

• Robinson Crusoe rescues Friday frontispiece
• Robinson Crusoe rescues the Spaniard
• Friday and the Bear
• Horse pursued by Wolves
• Tarring the Blacks
• Robinson Crusoe attacked and robbed by Tartars

Works by Ten Other Authors

• Albert Smith's The Pottleton Legacy
• Quiz's Sketches of Young Ladies
• James Grant's Sketches in London
• W. J. Neale's Paul Periwinkle
• Thomas Miller's Godfrey Malvern
• Augustus Mayhew's Paved with Gold
• George Halse's Agatha
• Anthony Trollope's Can You Forgive Her?
• Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Pelham
• George Meredith's "Juggling Jerry"

Social Commentary by Phiz in The Illustrated London News

• The Goose Club (24 December 1853)
• The New Revolution in Cabs (1853):
• The Social Cabman
• The Overcharging Cabman
• The Particularly Polite Cabman
• The Aristocratic Cabman
• The Chivalrous Cabman
• Whitsuntide in Greenwich Park

Bibliographies

• Primary Bibliography
• Criticism and Scholarship