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How The Pickwick Papers revolutionized Victorian publishing

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ILLUMINATORS THE ART OF THE SCRIBE Practical ...

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