The Children of Dickens

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine. 1940. Early Reprint. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and is missing the accompanying dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. This copy has a full sized rectangular pictorial pastedown illustration which is in very clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. Included are ten full color, full sized plates by Jessie Willcox Smith. "Jessie Willcox Smith (September 6, 1863 – May 3, 1935) was one of the most prominent female illustrators in the United States during the Golden Age of American illustration. She was a prolific contributor to respected books and magazines during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She illustrated stories and articles for clients such as Century, Collier's, Leslie's Weekly, Harper's, McClure's, Scribners, and the Ladies' Home Journal. She had an ongoing relationship with Good Housekeeping, including the long-running Mother Goose series of illustrations and then creating all the covers from December 1917 to 1933. Among the more than 60 books that Smith illustrated were Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline, and Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses." .