Richard Doyle and Charles visit a bookshop to check out the latest publications and to learn whether one of Dick's drawings has been accepted for publication. Just a sketch in the diary of a 15-year-old - but what a characterful and detailed drawing it is. #BookChatWeekly #Victorian #artsky #booksky

Facsimile editions of the 1840 Journal by a young Richard Doyle are well worth acquiring. Even at the age of 15 he showed the sense of fun and skill with the pen which, along with 'Phiz', made him one of the most popular cartoonists and illustrators of the Dickensian era. #BookChatWeekly #Victorian

"They're very shy still. Very shy. But, oh, lucky you to be able to see them! I only hear them. I daren't think what the place would be without them." - Rudyard Kipling 'They' (1905), his sentimental story of the ghosts of children haunting a garden. #BookWormSat #Kipling #ghosts #BookChatWeekly

In 1914 The Strand published the first English translation of 'The Apparition' by Ivan #Turgenev, accompanied by a dramatic double-page illustration by Ernest Wallcousins. (I've had to scan it in two parts otherwise I'd have damaged the volume's spine) #PhantomsFriday #BookChatWeekly #RussianWriters

Some seafood decide to have a go at humans-in-a-can for a change in the Strand 1927 serialization of Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea' yarn 'The Maracot Deep'. Illustration by Tom Peddie. #WyrdWednesday #ConanDoyle #ArthurConanDoyle #fantasyfiction #BookChatWeekly

Here's an example of why I keep falling back in love with my Strand Magazines collection - a 1933 story by Michael Arlen illustrated with art deco woodcuts by John Farleigh. I mean to say... #MichaelArlen #JohnFarleigh #artdeco #BookChatWeekly #artsky #woodcuts