Illustrations for Great Expectations

The original serial publication of Great Expectations in All the Year Round did not have accompanying illustrations, the only time a Dickens work appeared in the magazine without them.  The illustrations below are from the 1862 Library Edition, eight woodcuts by Marcus StoneThe Victorian Web, which hosts these images, in some cases also provides critical and historical commentary, along with relevant images from other editions.

Pip Waits on Miss Havisham

Old Orlick Among the Cinders

Lecturing on Capital

A Rubber at Miss Havisham’s

Taking Leave of Joe

“Don’t Go Home”

On the Marshes, by the Lime-kiln

With Estella after all

*Scanned images and text by Philip V. Allingham.