"Barnaby Rudge" by Charles Dickens, with 44 illustrations by Fred Barnard, published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1875. Early printing of the First American Edition for Barnard illustrations. [1st British edition was issued by Chapman and Hall in 1874].

Hard boards, original green cloth; gold and black decorated front board, gold lettering on spine [sporadic surface wear: see photos]; 7" x 10"; chocolate-brown endpapers [front ep has a small damage]; two frontispieces with tissue guard; 242 pages, one page is stained [coffee?], additional small stain outside edge of pages [see photos]; two page corner folds, very good condition. See photos.

Frederick Barnard (1846-1896) was an English illustrator, caricaturist and genre painter. He is noted for his work on the novels of Charles Dickens published between 1871 and 1879 by Chapman and Hall.

He followed in the footsteps of the respected illustrator Hablot Knight Browne who had worked with Dickens himself. Barnard created some 450 illustrations over an eight-year period, and became known as "the Charles Dickens among black-and-white artists."

Barnard concentrated on illustrating scenes other than those that Browne and Dickens had chosen to portray. Whereas Browne was inclined to create dramatic group scenes for his prints, Barnard was more interested in showing the relationships between pairs of characters. At the same time, Barnard also had to seamlessly blend the characters as visualized by Browne with his own style, trying not to deviate too much from their established appearance.

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