THE CHILDREN OF DICKENS,

Jessie Willcox Smith, Illus.

Samuel McChord Crothers, author

hardcover

Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York,1947 printing

One of the books in the Scribner's Illustrated Classics series; With ten charming colour plates by Jessie Willcox Smith along with a title-page vignette and illustrated endpapers featuring a London scene of the Old Curiosity Shop

Edge and corner wear, slight scuff on front cover

About this Item: 1947. Hardcover. Condition Good. 259 pages; securely bound, nice, tight copy, clean interior.

Smith brings us charming period images of David Copperfield and Peggotty, Pip and Joe Gargery, Little Em'ly, Oliver and the Artful Dodger, Tiny Tim and Bob Cratchit, Jenny Wren, Little Nell, The four little Kenwigses, Paul Dombey and Florence, and the Runaway Couple. Crothers text retells stories of many of Dickens' most famous characters and includes background information on the time and the settings of the novels to make them more approachable to 20th Century American children.

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