Dickens and his illustrators : Cruikshank, Seymour, Buss, "Phiz," Cattermole, Leech, Doyle, Stanfield, Maclise, Tenniel, Frank Stone, Landseer, Palmer, Topham, Marcus Stone, and Luke Fildes / by Frederick G. Kitton ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kitton, Frederic George, 1856-1904.

Contributor:

British Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Illustrations.

Dickens, Charles.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Artists--England.

Artists.

Genre:

Leather bindings (Binding)

Gold tooled bindings (Binding) -- 1899.

Bookplates (Provenance)

Physical Description:

xvi, 256 p. : plates ; 29 cm.

Edition:

2d ed.

Place of Publication:

London : G. Redway, 1899.

Contents:

Preface

List of illustrations

George Cruikshank

Robert Seymour

Robert W. Bluss

Hablôt K. Browne ("Phiz")

George Cattermole

Illustrators of the Christmas books

John Leech

Richard Doyle

Clarkson Stanfield, R.A.

Daniel Maclise, R.A.

Sir John Tenniel

Frank Stone, A.R.A.

Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A.

Samuel Palmer

F. W. Topham

Marcus Stone, R.A.

Luke Fildes, R.A.

Notes:

Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.

Appendices: I. Illustrators of cheap editions.--II. Concerning "extra illustrations."--III. Dickens in art.

Bound in: 4 mounted reproduced letters (Dickens, Cruikshank, Leech, M. Stone)

Laid in: bookseller's quote; tls. (Mrs. H. House, asst. ed., The letters of Charles Dickens)

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Bound in blue cloth with linen grain with teal leather at corners and spine. Text, floral decoration, and ridges on spine.

Athenaeum copy: Gift: Mrs. M.R. Anspach.

Athenaeum's copy bears bookplate: "Ex libris Marshall R. Anspach; Dickens in 1837 from a sketch by Cruikshank."

OCLC:

2892497