The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father, 1842–1843
By Richard Doyle
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Edited by Grant F. Scott
Before he joined the staff of Punch and designed its iconic front cover, illustrator Richard “Dicky” Doyle was a young man whose father (political caricaturist John Doyle) charged him with sending a weekly letter, even though they lived under the same roof. This volume collects the fifty-three illustrated missives in their entirety for the first time and provides an uncommon peek into the intimate but expansive observations of a precocious social commentator and artist.In
Christina Rossetti and Illustration
A Publishing History
By Lorraine Janzen Kooistra
Readers do not always take into account how books that combine image and text make their meanings. But for the Pre-Raphaelite poet Christina Rossetti, such considerations were central.
