The full record of a difficult collaboration: Seymour and the suicide that began Pickwick, Cruikshank’s later claim to have invented Oliver Twist, twenty-three years of Hablot Browne and the quarrel that ended them, then Leech, Stanfield, Maclise and Fildes — with the original plates and Dickens’s letters about them.
How the Dickens illustrations were made, and how the partnerships broke. Download the free EPUB.