A Day with Charles Dickens

NY: Hodder & Soughton. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. (cir. 1900). Later Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's gray paper-covered boards, red lettering on spine and cover, color onlay on cover. Illustrated with five full-color, full-page plates by L. Raven Hill. The illustrator, Leonard Raven-Hill (1867-1942) was an English artist, illustrator and cartoonist. He studied art at the Lambeth School of Art and then in Paris under MM. Bougereau and Aimé Morot. He began to exhibit at the Salon in 1887 but moved back to London when he was appointed as the art editor of Pick-Me-Up. He also continued to work as a painter and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1889. In 1893 he founded, with Arnold Golsworthy, the humorous and artistic monthly The Butterfly (1893–94, revived in 1899-1900) but began his most prominent association with a publication when his drawings appeared in Punch in December 1895. By 1901 he had joined the staff of Punch. He contributed to many other illustrated magazines including The Daily Graphic, Daily Chronicle, The Strand Magazine, The Sketch, Pall Mall Gazette and Windsor Magazine. He also illustrated a number of books. In his later years his eyesight began to fail and Raven-Hill died on 31 March 1942 at Ryde on the Isle of Wight.. Spine and covers mildly worn and slightly faded, former owner's name on ffep in elegant hand, else fine. VERY GOOD.. Days with the Great Writers Series. Color Frontispiece and Plates. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 45, (1) pp .