1925 Children of Dickens, First Ed., SIGNED by Illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith

Samuel McChord Crothers

Verlag: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925

Beschreibung

The Children of Dickens by Samuel McChord Crothers. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925, first edition, SIGNED by Artist Jessie Willcox Smith. 259 pp, Ten plates in color, 9.5 x 7". In fair condition. Black cloth boards scuffed at edges & worn/bumped at corners. Painted paper illustration on front board is generally scuffed & soiled, but still presents well. Head and tail of spine bumped. Gilt lettering on spine bright and clean. Light foxing exhibited to top and fore-edges of text-block. Illustrator's signature found on frontispiece (recto) in pencil. No known previous ownership or marginalia. Off-setting to pages adjacent to plates. Only frontispiece is accompanied by a tissue guard. Foxing exhibited throughout text-block, mostly around plates. Binding intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935) was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of American illustration. She was considered "one of the greatest pure illustrators." She had an ongoing relationship with Good Housekeeping, which included a long-running Mother Goose series of illustrations. Among the more than sixty books she illustrated were Louisa May Alcott's Little Women & An Old Fashioned Girl, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline, and Robert Louis Stevensons Garden of Verses. While working for Ladies' Home Journal, Smith enrolled in a 1894 in classes taught by Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute. She was in his first class, which was almost 50% female. Smith preferred to create illustrations for covers and stories, and also illustrated advertisements, which bore her signature. She was particularly known for her illustrations and advertising posters of children and women. She worked in mixed media: oil, watercolor, pastels, gouache, charcoal - whatever she felt gave her desired effect. Quite a rare signature of Jessie Willcox Smith. Presents well - gift quality. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers RAREA1925DRSB

Bibliografische Details

Titel: 1925 Children of Dickens, First Ed., SIGNED ...

Verlag: Charles Scribner's Sons

Erscheinungsdatum: 1925

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fair

Signiert: Signed by Illustrator(s)

Auflage: 1st Edition