George Cruikshank
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The Tooth-Ache, Imagined by Horace Mayhew, and Realized by George Cruikshank. Rear panel priced "1/6 Plain, 3/-Colored" and this being the colored 24 panel, fan-page edition. Description: small, 24mo format, heavy tan paper boards. One of 5,000 Facsimile copies of Horace Mayhew's uncommon 1849 1st edition, (43 panels).
Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, and Snow White are among the jewels we owe to the German brothers Grimm, who began in the first decade of the 19th century to seek out and listen to village storytellers. The best-loved of the tales they discovered are now brought together with the marvelous pictures that in 1900 first established the reputation of one of the greatest children's illustrators of all time, Arthur Rackham.
Der Waisenjunge Oliver Twist lebt in London unter Gaunern und Bettlern. Immer wieder versucht der alte Fagin Oliver zum Stehlen zu zwingen. Als der gütige Mr Brownlow den Jungen aufnimmt, erfährt Oliver zum ersten Mal Liebe und Geborgenheit. Doch über Olivers Geburt schwebt ein Geheimnis, das ihn immer wieder in Gefahr bringt.
The Artist as Social Critic in Prints and Drawings from the Fifteenth Century to Picasso
Book by Shikes, Ralph E