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The Many Illustrators of A Tale of Two Cities 7: A. A. Dixon

"'Collins' Clear-Type Press, let me ask you a question.'"

This is a very long post.

This week's edition has, in my research, become quite the edition.

Sadly, this image is the best source for the cover wrapper illustration that I could find.

You are likely familiar with Arthur Augustus Dixon's illustrations for the 1905 Collins Pocket Edition of A Tale of Two Cities. Several of them are very common to find in Internet searches and articles about the book, if not other editions of the book itself.

But the question raised by my research for this week's edition is: Are you familiar with all of them?

Thing is, as the source above states (read the whole article if you have the time, it's very interesting!), Dixon created twelve illustrations for this novel.

And sure enough, this source from the Internet Archive and this source from @oldillustrations (hello!) both have eleven of the same illustrations - with the twelfth presumably being for the wrapper, as seen in this source (previously cited) from the Victorian Web.

Alright, so that's three separate sources, all with (effectively) the same set of elaborate illustrations from 1905. Neat!

...

...but if you start counting...

...you'll notice that this seems...

...like a lot more than twelve!

Basically, there are five illustrations by A. A. Dixon that are completely unaccounted for in any of the three sources previously cited.

For the purposes of this post, the cover wrapper is considered #0 and is not pictured in these banners.

In full-size set of illustrations in this post, this source from Google Books is the source of four of those mystery illustrations:

#3: "'He stared at her with a fearful look.'" #6: "'Drive him fast to his tomb.'" #7: "He said, 'Farewell!'" #12: "'She appeared with folded arms.'" #9 ("'Patriots and friends, we are ready!'") and #11 ("'You are consigned to La Force.'") are sourced from Google Books in the full-size versions in this post simply because the Internet Archive versions of those two illustrations had cropping issues.

To me, this is mystery enough on its own. Why would another version of the book suddenly have more than the originally-stated number of illustrations by this artist? Especially considering that the Google Books source does not have #13 ("''I know you, Evremonde!''") - why would it be missing one of the "main" set?

It gets even more interesting.

As you'll notice in the banner, we're still one off: Keen-eyed observers of the full-size set of illustrations might have already noticed that #14 ("'Carton and the spy returned.'") looks a bit different than the rest of them - a bit like what happened in the previous edition of this series!

That's because that Dixon illustration comes from this completely random source - a post from a blog called the Paperback Palette dating back to 2018 - that I happened across on Google Images of all places while sitting on an airplane trying to set up this post last week!

And to top it all off, that source is missing #6!

At this point, if your first instinct is, reasonably, that perhaps Dixon didn't actually illustrate these extra five and that it was someone imitating him for later editions, then know that that was my instinct too - until I (dare I say it again) checked those signatures!!!

(I edited the colors to prevent flashing.)

All five of those illustrations bear Dixon's signature, so it's safe to assume that they are A. A. Dixon originals - from 1905, even.

Interestingly, #s 1, 10, 13, 15, and 16 don't have signatures! Does this mean anything? Probably not - as an artist myself, I often forget to put my own signature - but still, I can't resist mentioning it!

So the most likely explanation here is simply that the publishing house originally commissioned A. A. Dixon for more than twelve illustrations and then held on to some of them, eventually choosing to publish them in other editions. Still, we can't say for sure.

And as to why some are missing from the more "complete" sets - human error, most likely!

If you scrub through the Google Books source, you'll notice that #s 11 and 12 actually repeat (one even changes color, which I have no explanation for) - it's most likely either that the book was accidentally printed with repeats of #s 11 and 12 where 13 and 14 were supposed to go or that the person scanning this edition made a similar error.

As an aside, it's so interesting that the illustrations are evenly spaced throughout the book - I had not noticed that until now!

And as for the Paperback Palette source, it's most likely that the blogger accidentally skipped over an image while combing through their edition or just glossed over it when posting the batch (I understand that from experience!) We can see this by adding up the letters in some of the illustrations' captions - doing so reveals that the letters are meant to go to P, the sixteenth letter of the alphabet.

Thus, one must be missing! Case closed!

Except... It's actually (going by both the chronology of the book and the order in which this set was found in Google Books) missing the wrong letter! Here, it seems that In the Google Books source, #7 in the full set is given the seventh letter in the alphabet, G - whereas in the Paperback Palette source, "#7" is labeled as the sixth, F:

This implies not only that #6 is absent from the Paperback Palette source but also that there is a missing mystery illustration located between this source's H and K - that is to say, before or after #9!

EXCEPT... For one, this isn't the only inconsistency I've noticed - there are several places where the letters seem shifted in a strange way. I've seen #2 listed as "C" and #9 listed both as "H" and "I2i" (???), just as two examples. (My theory is that the cover wrapper and the frontispiece may be at play here, but who knows?)

More importantly, though, it seems that, for some mysterious reason, all of the sources with relatively consistent use of these letters (i.e. all but the Victorian Web) - even the sources with only eleven interior illustrations - still give #15 in the full set the fifteenth letter, O. Which, of course, may make all of this pretty moot anyway.

Dare I say..."Oh."

Suffice it to say, just as much as major sources like the Internet Archive and Google Books are vital to this sort of research and preservation work, so are smaller websites and bloggers! After all, without the Victorian Web and the Paperback Palette, we as collective netizens likely wouldn't have ever known about the cover wrapper or illustration #14 (not to mention that the versions of the illustrations from the set posted by @oldillustrations have by far the best image quality and standardization that I've found! Please go check them out if you haven't yet!).

As for the reasons behind Collins' Clear-Type Press not publishing all of the illustrations from the beginning (if that's the explanation we're to go with here), I suppose the question I'd like to ask is:

why? why would you put us through this?

& the standard endnote for all posts in this series:

This post is intended to act as the start of a forum on the given illustrator, so if anyone has anything to add - requests to see certain drawings in higher definition (since Tumblr compresses images), corrections to factual errors, sources for better-quality versions of the illustrations, further reading, fun facts, any questions, or just general commentary - simply do so on this post, be it in a comment/tags or the replies!💫

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charles' gf just can't seem to catch a break

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leclercbaby: so charles is racing in miami and y/n is out spending his money with her friends?

ynandcharles: you know she has a job right? and a life outside of charles?

charlesdefender: let's not pretend her little writing gig covers all of this shit

charles_leclerc: lovely lady

yourinstagram: why thank you my dashing gentleman

ferrarigirl16: imagine dating an elite athlete and smoking? it's so gross charles needs to drop her asap

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babygirlpierre NO Y/N ??? DON'T GET ME EXCITED

holacarlos55 do you people not have jobs or ?

yourusername what do they put in the water in monaco woooooof

charles_leclerc says the tall glass of water herself

justleclercthings let's not pretend that her missing his home gp isn't a HUGE deal omg

lordperceval i usually don't care about wag drama but like ... we all know y/n is the worst wag, right? she hardly comes to races, is always spending his money with her friends and is smoking as if he doesn't need to be in top condition?

likedbypierregasly you might have a point

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cl16x mother back to mothering as she should

charlesstan okay well some of y'all are real quiet now

charles_leclerc wouldn't be a monaco race without you (and your stray cats)

yourbff since we're staying at your house i'll keep what i wanted to say to myself

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yourusername don't pretend you don't love us

peargasly why can't she go anywhere without her friends it's so weird

pierregaslight because she obviously has no friends in the paddock any time the camera goes to the ferrari garage no one is ever with her

grussy63 she seems super annoying idk what charles sees in her

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howdyricciardo so everyone who gets on her ass when she can't go to races but where's the same energy for charles now - we all know they have the week off cause he's on holiday with pierre.

landonowins it's such a double standard

number16 i still think she's bad for charles her actually doing her job won't change my mind

charlesbaby can't wait for the day when she won't be on this page anymore

perceval16 these comments ... they're on every post i really think charles needs to say something at this point, he's just hanging y/n out to dry

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yourbff: since no one else will, LISTEN UP SLUTS!!! this girl is the most talented and kind-hearted girl in the whole entire world. ANYONE would be lucky to be with her, so it honestly BAFFLES my mind that those blessed enough to be with her are so silent when his so-called fans rip a person they do not know apart on social media. i say this sincerely GET A LIFE!!! also she's the sexiest girl in the world and could have literally anyone she wants so PICK UP THE SLACK OR we'll activate operation hot girl summer - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED !!!

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yourbff2 @charles_leclerc

yourbff3 @charles_leclerc

yourusername i love you all so much - platonic soulmates for real

danielricciardo @charles_leclerc

charlieleclerc oh wow charles just got humbled

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charles_leclerc: i've not been the best of boyfriends in recent weeks, so it is time i say my piece. y/n is the most talented, patient and beautiful individual i have ever met and i won't stand for her being attacked on social media by my "fans". you are not a fan of mine if you attack my girlfriend. i love her and nothing an anonymous comment can say will ever change that. you attack her for not "supporting" me enough and yet none of you know anything from behind the scenes (not that you should need to), if anything i have been the unsupportive one. i love y/n so so much and i will do anything to make sure she knows it. please stay out of our business.

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yourusername: he's mine. cry more.

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lilacleclerc i love them so much PARENTS

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note: bit of a random one but alas i hope y'all enjoy

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..................number16 ....................of50

“Carbon Dioxide” by Fever Ray

MG:

There is nothing more beautiful or more terrifying than a goth in love. “Sucking on what’s mine/ Love’s carbon dioxide,” Karin Dreijer opens the song, framing ownership of their desire with the air we exhale. While it’s more common to think of oxygen as our breath, it’s in fact high CO2 that prompts us to inhale. The two compounds are synergistic in our bodies and your exhales are my inhales, Dreijer seems to suggest; it’s them at their most human. The rest of the song is an extended metaphor for orgasm. “Holding my hand (holding my heart)/ While falling” is spectral and supernatural, Dreijer’s soul leaving their body in tandem with the subject of their love. It reminds me of Brontë’s line: “Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” I’ve recently discovered that some people hate Wuthering Heights because all the people in the book are terrible. Well, that doesn’t mean it’s not a love story. If, in all your horror and abjection, your doom to haunt the moors forever, the ruin your bring upon your whole cursed family line you can still find a soulmate, then perhaps in a couple hundred years you can evolve enough to announce “There’s resounding gongs and clanging bowls/ There’s cats guiding my soul” at climax.

DV:

In the eleven years of Grooves N Jams there’s literally never been a song about sex that MG and I have agreed was actually sexy. I’m happy to announce that this trend continues with “Carbon Dioxide,” a song that I’m willing to admit has words that imply orgasm but otherwise sounds like a nightmare populated by clowns with instruments and microphones. To be clear: this is exactly everything that I want from Fever Ray. Their insistence on the glories of weird dark monster worlds is inseparable from their embrace of pleasure and joy; I don’t live there but it’s a place I want to know exists. Here’s hoping that Dreijer continues to build a catalog of the most off-kilter love songs possible, and MG and I can go on trading off which of us thinks they’re sensual and which thinks they’re just brilliant.

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Do you like 'Yu-Gi-Oh!'? 😚

*I pick it up number16 this time.

a tribute to the memory of the late Mr. Kazuki Takahashi by Yuichi Ikusawa (Ikuzawa) below. ⤵️

He sang and composed one of the theme songs (OP/ED) in the Yu-Gi-Oh!

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#inktober number16! Overworked for just an inktober sketch, but I’ll come back to it later. Wanted to actually do something spooky...👹 #inktober2022 #illustration #conceptart #demon #artistoninstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CjzXE0LudrT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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wall bars

Imagine a wall bar.

At the top,

flowers and sunlight with no end.

At the bottom,

nothing but darkness.

You slowly start to climb down,

to the bottom.

But then you fall down.

You fall on cement

and break all your bones.

It hurts like hell,

but you decide to climb up again.

Because the light heals your bones,

the pain goes away

and it becomes easier to climb up.

But then,

you fall again

and everything starts again.

Your bones break,

the pain gets worse

and it makes it difficult to climb up the wall bars. 

But you gather all your strength and

start to climb.

The light heals your bones

and it’s easier to climb.

But then you fall again.

You can’t escape the cycle.

But you don’t stop to climb up,

no matter how often you fall,

because it’s better to have healed bones

and less pain, for a short time,

then to sit on the ground

crying in pain 

for the rest of your life.

You need to climb up to the light,

to get your bones healed.

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Om Gam Ganapataye Namaha! There is inclination towards anxiety, worry, annoyance, frustration compared to other numbers. Melancholy results in extreme physical fatigue. Remedy is to avoid negative situations/attitudes as there is tendency to soak up the same. Be around people you feel genuinely needed and appreciated. Also avoid attempting too much for his or her strength, a major cause of all health issues. Water lilies /lotus blossoms will curiously lift their spirits when heart is sad, lonely or longing. #numerology #number16#number7 #number25 Pooja Rathore Astronumerologist for queries mail @numagk@numagk.com or whatsapp @9945645537 www.numagk.com https://www.instagram.com/p/CC3B1LCH3w3/?igshid=1tdkjwao81l3m

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