The Children of Dickens

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1943. Black Cloth with color pastedown. 259 pp.fore and bottom edge deckle, illustrated end papers. Illustrated with ten full-page color plates (including frontispiece) from paintings by Jessie Willcox Smith; and pictorial endpapers of The Old Curiosity Shop and title-page decoration by Euphame Mallison.Hardcover Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. front covered by a picture of Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim. 10 color illustrations by Jessie Wilcox Smith, the cover lining and title page decoration designed by Euphame Mallison. Both binding and text block are tight, clean, and unmarked, This is a collection, edited, arranged and explained by Samuel Crothers, of Charles Dickens' most beloved child characters; each one featured in one of the 24 chapters. Chapters include: London Once Upon a Time; Dickens Himself; Pip; David Copperfield; Wilkins Micawber Junior; On the Road to Dover; Joe the Fat Boy; Oliver Twist; the Jellyby Childern; Sissy Jupe; The Child of the Marshalsea; The Cratchits; the Doll's Dressmaker; Little Nell; The Kenwigses; The Child's Story; The Boy at Todgers's; The Dombey Children; Jemmy Jackman Lirriper's Story; On the Way to Gretna Green; Our School; Alica in Wonderland; The Infant Phenomenon; and A Christmas Tree.. Gift Inscription to former owner inside cover