{"product_id":"character-sketches-from-charles-dickens-portrayed-by-kyd-9781582189017","title":"Character Sketches from Charles Dickens Portrayed by Kyd","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoseph Clayton Clarke (1857 - 8 August 1937), who worked under the pseudonym \"Kyd\", was a British artist best known for his illustrations of characters from the novels of Charles Dickens. . This first edition 1889 reprint contains twenty-four color illustrations with descriptive text of each character.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eClarke, Joseph Clayton:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Joseph Clayton Clarke(1857 - 8 August 1937), who worked under the pseudonym Kyd, was a British artist best known for his illustrations of characters from the novels of Charles Dickens. The artwork was published in magazines or sold as watercolor paintings, rather than included in an edition of the novels. Apart from his Dickens work, Kyd also illustrated humorous series such as Some Typical Newspaper Readers (c.1900), The Book and Its Reader, and London Types He also illustrated a series of 50 smokers for Gallaher Ltd.; this series was issued as a set of cigarette cards entitled 'Votaries of the Weed' in 1916. The British Museum acquired a collection of 598 drawings and paintings of Clarke's Dickens illustrations, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, Charles Dickens Museum and the University of Texas at Austin each also have significant collections of Clarke's Dickens illustrations.\"","brand":"River Moor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50478208418066,"sku":"9781582189017","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_80d0280b-a8e0-4eec-9d2f-181761682bf7.jpg?v=1730289304","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/character-sketches-from-charles-dickens-portrayed-by-kyd-9781582189017","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}