Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz") An original steel plate of "Mr Tapley acts Third Party with great discretion" from Charles Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit, fitted in a green moroco folding case by Charles J Sawyer with an impression of the plate and with a typed letter signed by Charles Wood, Managing Director of Chapman & Hall stating that this plate was engraved by Hablot K Browne "Phiz". The scene is from chapter 14 of Martin Chuzzlewit, Martin is reading to Mary a letter he has written to Tom Pinch, as they stroll in St James's Park, London Note: a similar lot was sold at Christie's, New York, 4th December 2009, The William E Self Library of Important English and American Literature, sold $5,000
Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz") An original steel plate of "Mr Tapley acts Third Party with great discretion" from Charles Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit, fitted in a green moroco folding case by Charles J Sawyer with an impression of the plate and with a typed letter signed by Charles Wood, Managing Director of Chapman & Hall stating that this plate was engraved by Hablot K Browne "Phiz". The scene is from chapter 14 of Martin Chuzzlewit, Martin is reading to Mary a letter he has written to Tom Pinch, as they stroll in St James's Park, London Note: a similar lot was sold at Christie's, New York, 4th December 2009, The William E Self Library of Important English and American Literature, sold $5,000
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