Description
No Jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added. The Very Good binding is green cloth over boards, pictorial past-on, gilt stamping on the cover, Black lettering on the spine. All edges gilt. Green ink pictorial endpapers. The binding is tight and pages are clean. Arthur A. Dixon illustrations are very nice with both color and black-and-white illustrations, full page and some within the text, they can be found throughout the book.
About the illustrator:
Arthur Augustus Dixon (8 May 1872 – 1959) was an English artist and illustrator. Arthur was born and raised in St Pancras, London by his father, Richard Dixon, a grainer, and his mother Rosa. In 1887 his father passed away and Rosa moved with Arthur and his two brothers, Frederick and Herbert to Islington. In 1899, Arthur married Cecil Elsie Soweby in Steyning and together they had one daughter born a year later. The two settled in Berkhamsted until Arthur Dixon passed away in 1959. Arthur was a prolific illustrator in his time and made illustrations for reprints of around thirty-five classic works by Charles Dickens, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Charles Kingsley, Victor Hugo, Elizabeth Gaskell and Washington Irving. The style he employs has been termed ‘neo-Pre-Raphaelite’ which was indicative of his peers such as Byam Shaw or Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale.
