When asked to explain why he chose this name he answered that the change from " Nemo " to " Phiz " was made to harmonize better with Dickens's " Boz ."
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While Oxford s pistol may be pointing in her direction, " Phiz " reassuringly depicts the sovereign as literally far above her attacker, serenely and majestically removed from the lunatic's threat.
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Robert Seymour provided the illustrations for the first two instalments before his suicide . " " Phiz " " ( Hablot Knight Browne ) who went on to illustrate most of Dickens'novels.
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The gorgeously bound 850-page corpulence has text redeemed by old plates, along with the 40 illustrations by " Phiz " ( H . K . Browne ) that accompanied the original 1844 edition.
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35 MILLION VIEWERS CAN'T BE WRONG : The glaring phiz of former Atlanta Falcons nose tackle Bill Goldberg graces the Entertainment Weekly ( $ 2.99 ) cover story on the rise of professional wrestling.
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Evidently the Plough dance depicted by Phiz in his illustrations for Harrison Ainsworth's 1858 novel " Mervyn Clitheroe ", and Ainsworth's description, is based on this or a similar account:
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He began a friendship with William Harrison Ainsworth, the author of the highwayman novel " Sam Weller in the fourth episode ( the first to be illustrated by Phiz ) marked a sharp climb in its popularity.
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Dickens and Phiz became good friends and in 1838 travelled together to Yorkshire to see the schools of which Nicholas Nickleby became the hero : afterwards they made several journeys of this nature in company to facilitate the illustrator's work.
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Albeit there are receipts for'Photogravure plates produced by Joseph Grego for use by'Chapman and Hall'- Dickens's publishers, and a rare life-photograph * of Hablot Knight Browne ('Phiz').
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It is here that his true genius lies, even more than in his talent for conviviality and fun, which makes an early copy of an early Lever ( with Phiz's illustrations ) seem literally to exhale an atmosphere of past and present entertainment.
