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DICKENS, CHARLES. Autograph letter signed ("Charles Dickens") to engraver Thomas Oldham Barlow, promising to forward some engravings by Daniel Maclise. Devonshire Terrace, 24 April 1857. 3 pages, small 8vo, written on rectos and verso. "... I will lose no time in referring it, and its accompanying packet of engravings... it is right that I should tell you that I believe the rights of engraving will be sold to a publisher, and that some steps have already been taken to arrange the terms..."
Daniel Maclise was a well-known painter of historical and literary subjects and portraits, and book illustrator. He was a close friend of Dickens's, and the painter of the famous 1839 portrait of him which was engraved as the frontispiece of Nicholas Nickleby. He was one of the illustrators engaged for three of the Christmas Books, and his talent for the fanciful is seen especially in the frontispieces for The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth.
Daniel Maclise was a well-known painter of historical and literary subjects and portraits, and book illustrator. He was a close friend of Dickens's, and the painter of the famous 1839 portrait of him which was engraved as the frontispiece of Nicholas Nickleby. He was one of the illustrators engaged for three of the Christmas Books, and his talent for the fanciful is seen especially in the frontispieces for The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth.