Dickens and His Illustrators: Cruikshank, Seymour, Buss, “Phiz,” Cattermole, Leech, Doyle, Stanfield, Maclise, Tenniel, Frank Stone, Landseer, Palmer, Topham, Marcus Stone, and Luke Fildes.

KITTON, Frederic. [Charles Dickens; George Cruikshank].

Item Number: 137211

London: George Redway, 1899.

Finely bound edition of Kitton’s great work on the illustrators of Dickens’ works. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon bound in, top edge gilt, illustrated with twenty-two portraits and facsimiles of seventy original drawings here reproduced for the first time, tissue-guarded frontispiece of Dickens. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Bookplate.

Dickens worked closely with his illustrators, supplying them with a summary of the work at the outset to ensure that his characters and settings were portrayed precisely as he envisioned them. Marcus Stone, illustrator of Our Mutual Friend, recalled that the author was perpetually "ready to describe down to the minutest details the personal characteristics, and life-history of the creations of his fancy."