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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

Excerpt from Dickens and His Illustrators The evolution of a successful picture, as exhibited by means of pre paratory sketches, is eminently instructive to the student of Art. The present volume should therefore appeal not merely to the Dickens Collector, but to all who appreciate the artistic value of tentative studies wrought for a special purpose. The absolute facsimiles, here given for the first time, enable us to obtain an insight into ...

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Excerpt from Dickensiana: A Bibliography of the Literature Relating to Charles Dickens and His Writings "Posthumous Fame! Proud words - yet may they be uttered in a humble spirit. The common lot of man is, after death - oblivion. Yet genius, however small its sphere, if conversant with the conditions of the human heart, may vivify with indestructible life some happy delineations, that shall continue to be held dear by successive sorrowers in ...

Excerpt from The Minor Writings of Charles Dickens: A Bibliography and Sketch T be identification of several papers not previously recognised as emanating from Dickens's pen was rendered feasible by Me existence of Me original mss. In Me Forster Collection at Me soum Kensington Museum. Among Mem will be found Me autograpks of a number of Me Novelist's contributions to Mat defunct journal, The Examiner, wkick Forster edited during Me fforties....

Excerpt from The Dickens Country This inspiration found its first expression upon the lines of art. The boy showed great ability with his pencil, and was apprenticed to wood engraving, joining the staff of the Graphic, and contributing any number of pencil drawings and woodcuts to its columns, in the days before the cheap processes of reproduction had supplanted these genuine forms of art-workmanship. His landscapes and his pictures of old bu...

Excerpt from Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne): A Memoir, Including a Selection From His Correspondence and Notes on His Principal Works Line-engraving, however, did not find much favour with the future Phiz, the process being too tedious, for finden would probably occupy some weeks to produce a small plate, which by the quicker process of etching, could have been executed in as many hours. He accordingly suspended Operations in that quarter, and, ...

Excerpt from John Leech, Artist and Humourist: A Biographical SketchThe late Dr. John brown, at the commencement of his admirable paper on john leech, discourses humorously on the physiology and philosophy of laughter, and on the various ways in which it seizes upon and deals with mankind: how it excruciates some, causing them to look and yell as if caught in a trap, how others, whom laughter grips and rends, are made desperate, and commit hav...

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