Like an uncut cake

Take a good dollop of Victorian innovation, add a fistful of classics, season it liberally with creative genius and you’ll cook up the very British art of literary illustration. Carla Passino charts its history and discovers that it still thrives

The British Imagination: A History of Ideas from ...

How The Pickwick Papers revolutionized Victorian publishing

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