Beauty and the Beast (Classic Children's Books) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1595834605 ISBN 13: 9781595834607

Publisher: Laughing Elephant, 2012

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  “At their best both C.E. and H.M. [Brock] could stand comparison with any penman anywhere ... They were not themselves ‘characters’ of course. They did not lead Bohemian lives, they were never drunk, they did not die young. They were not business-men enough to collect large sums in royalties, as Rackham very properly did on occasion ... What is more they were not Londoners, even by adoption but confirmed ‘provincials’ (what on expression!) and this would certainly weight against them ... Take a long look at H.M. Brock’s pen-and-ink work of Oliver Wendell Holmes’ essays, his Dickens characters, Christmas Tales, his superb illustrations to the New Testament. Put all these alongside the best of their hundreds of drawings for Punch – and it is surely clear than in all that galaxy of talent that shone so brightly in the Great Age of illustration, here were Castor and Pollux.”  

C.M. Kelly, The Brocks, 1975

 

About the Author

 

H.M. Brock (1875-1960) along with his brother C.E. Brock had a long and successful career as an illustrator, no small feat during a time that saw some of the greatest of children’s book artists. The brothers grew up in Cambridge, where their father was a specialist in Oriental Languages. Early on he was greatly influenced by his brother, with whom he shared a studio, but eventually developed his own vigorous style, one which lent itself very well to illustrating such works as The Deerslayer (1900), Sir Walter Scott’s Waverly (1899), Shakespeare’s King Richard II and four of the novels of Robert Louis Stevenson, as well as several of Charles Dickens’ works and many other books. A devotee of Gilbert and Sullivan, H.M. Brock designed many posters and other promotional materials for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.

Jerry Griswold is a specialist in Children's Literature and in American Literature and Culture. The author of seven books, he has published more than 200 essays in the national press (Nation, Paris Review, New Republic, et al.) and is a frequent contributor to the New York and the Los Angeles Times. The former Director of the National Center for the Study of Children's Literature, Griswold was a professor at San Diego State University, UCLA, UCSD, and the National University of Ireland in Galway.

 

 

About this edition

• Publisher: Laughing Elephant
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1595834605
• ISBN 13: 9781595834607
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 48
• Illustrator: Brock H.M.