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1907 Illus by HARRY FURNISS Gamble Gold JUDGE EDWARD ABBOTT PARRY Gilt Binding
1907 Illus by HARRY FURNISS Gamble Gold JUDGE EDWARD ABBOTT PARRY Gilt Binding
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By His Hour Judge Edward Abbott Parry
Illustrated by Harry Furness
A bright and attractive stamped cloth binding / Pictorial boards
Published by Hutchinson, London, 1907. First edition. Hardback gilt decorative cloth binding, 8vo, (8" x 6"). Gilt to all page edges. pp viii, 248 pages. Illustrated with detail by Harry Furniss
CONDITION
Very good. The cloth binding remains bright and in good condition with no tearing to the cloth or obtruse marks. Endpapers good with the front having a name written to it. Pages good throughout but there is some light spotting to a few pages, but most text pages good and clean and free from any marks. Overall a handsome copy in good condition.
Harry Furniss (March 26, 1854 – January 14, 1925) was a British illustrator. He established his career on the Illustrated London News before moving to Punch. He also illustrated Lewis Carroll's novel Sylvie and Bruno.
His first job as an illustrator was for the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, and when it was purchased by the owner of The Illustrated London News he moved to that magazine. There he produced illustrations of social events such as the Boat Race, Goodwood and even the annual fancy dress ball at Brookwood Asylum, as well as acting as a special correspondent reporting on aspects of life in contemporary England, such as the scandalous divorce trial of Lady Colin Campbell.
After some years Furniss moved to The Graphic, initially writing and illustrating a series of supplements titled "Life in Parliament", and he comments that "from this time forward it would be difficult to name any illustrated paper with which I have not at sometime or other been connected".
His most famous humorous drawings were published in Punch, for which he started working in 1880, and to which he contributed over 2,600 drawings. He left Punch in 1894 when its owners discovered that he had sold one of his 'Punch' drawings to Pears Soap for use in an advertising campaign.
He illustrated Lewis Carroll's novel Sylvie and Bruno in 1889 and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded in 1893. Carroll and Furniss sometimes produced both pictures and text simultaneously. Carroll exerted strong control over Furniss' illustration, to such an extent that Furniss would pretend to be out when Carroll called at his home. After completing Sylvie and Bruno Concluded Furniss vowed never to work for the author again.
In 1890, he illustrated the Badminton Library's volume on Golf.
On leaving Punch Furniss brought out his own humorous magazine Lika Joko, but when this failed he moved to America where he worked as a writer and actor in the fledgling film industry and where, in 1914, he pioneered the first animated cartoon film for Thomas Edison.
His two-volume autobiography, titled The Confessions of a Caricaturist was published in 1902, and a further volume of personal recollections and anecdotes, Harry Furniss At Home, was published in 1904.
Furniss wrote and illustrated twenty-nine books of his own, including Some Victorian Men and Some Victorian Women and illustrated thirty-four works by other authors, including the complete works of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray.
Furniss Family grave site, Hastings, England, refurbished in 2018 by Great Grandson; Noël Mark Furniss (California-USA)
On some projects, like his illustrations for G. E. Farrow's Wallypug books, Furniss collaborated with his daughter, fellow artist Dorothy Furniss (1879–1944).
Furniss married Marian Rogers in the Strand in 1877.
By His Hour Judge Edward Abbott Parry
Illustrated by Harry Furness
A bright and attractive stamped cloth binding / Pictorial boards
Published by Hutchinson, London, 1907. First edition. Hardback gilt decorative cloth binding, 8vo, (8" x 6"). Gilt to all page edges. pp viii, 248 pages. Illustrated with detail by Harry Furniss
CONDITION
Very good. The cloth binding remains bright and in good condition with no tearing to the cloth or obtruse marks. Endpapers good with the front having a name written to it. Pages good throughout but there is some light spotting to a few pages, but most text pages good and clean and free from any marks. Overall a handsome copy in good condition.
Harry Furniss (March 26, 1854 – January 14, 1925) was a British illustrator. He established his career on the Illustrated London News before moving to Punch. He also illustrated Lewis Carroll's novel Sylvie and Bruno.
His first job as an illustrator was for the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, and when it was purchased by the owner of The Illustrated London News he moved to that magazine. There he produced illustrations of social events such as the Boat Race, Goodwood and even the annual fancy dress ball at Brookwood Asylum, as well as acting as a special correspondent reporting on aspects of life in contemporary England, such as the scandalous divorce trial of Lady Colin Campbell.
After some years Furniss moved to The Graphic, initially writing and illustrating a series of supplements titled "Life in Parliament", and he comments that "from this time forward it would be difficult to name any illustrated paper with which I have not at sometime or other been connected".
His most famous humorous drawings were published in Punch, for which he started working in 1880, and to which he contributed over 2,600 drawings. He left Punch in 1894 when its owners discovered that he had sold one of his 'Punch' drawings to Pears Soap for use in an advertising campaign.
He illustrated Lewis Carroll's novel Sylvie and Bruno in 1889 and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded in 1893. Carroll and Furniss sometimes produced both pictures and text simultaneously. Carroll exerted strong control over Furniss' illustration, to such an extent that Furniss would pretend to be out when Carroll called at his home. After completing Sylvie and Bruno Concluded Furniss vowed never to work for the author again.
In 1890, he illustrated the Badminton Library's volume on Golf.
On leaving Punch Furniss brought out his own humorous magazine Lika Joko, but when this failed he moved to America where he worked as a writer and actor in the fledgling film industry and where, in 1914, he pioneered the first animated cartoon film for Thomas Edison.
His two-volume autobiography, titled The Confessions of a Caricaturist was published in 1902, and a further volume of personal recollections and anecdotes, Harry Furniss At Home, was published in 1904.
Furniss wrote and illustrated twenty-nine books of his own, including Some Victorian Men and Some Victorian Women and illustrated thirty-four works by other authors, including the complete works of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray.
Furniss Family grave site, Hastings, England, refurbished in 2018 by Great Grandson; Noël Mark Furniss (California-USA)
On some projects, like his illustrations for G. E. Farrow's Wallypug books, Furniss collaborated with his daughter, fellow artist Dorothy Furniss (1879–1944).
Furniss married Marian Rogers in the Strand in 1877.
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