His novels and short stories are widely read today.Vintage engraving circa ... Snatching up a meal-sack, effectually stopped the conflict by drawing it over the head and shoulders of the mighty Potter ...

Charles Dickens Charles Dickens from out-of-copyright 1898 book "Blackie's Modern Cyclopedia of Universal Information ... effectually stopped the conflict by drawing it over the head and shoulders of ...

Phiz emerged as the illustrator of The Pickwick Papers, when the original illustrator died after only two issues. The name Phiz was probably chosen to match the pen-name Boz, which Dickens used for ...