Title-page by J. Clayton Clarke (Kyd)

Title-page

J. Clayton Clarke ("Kyd")

Watercolour

1898[?]

From The Characters of Charles Dickens Pourtrayed in a Series of Original Water Colour Sketches by “Kyd.”

Not surprisingly, Pickwick comes first.

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Title-Page Caption

The characters of Charles Dickens are something more than mere fictional creations, mere creatures of the imagination: they breathe and live in very real flesh and blood, they exist in our very midst. We know or seem to have known them personally; we have smiled with Sam Weller, we have sympathized with Tiny Tim, we have wept with Little Nell. They will cease to charm us only when the English language is forgotten, or human nature ceases to exist.

Bibliography

The Characters of Charles Dickens Pourtrayed in a Series of Original Water Colour Sketches by “Kyd.” London, Paris, and New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1898[?].

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