"Christmas Stories" (1913)
Illustrator: Spencer Baird Nichols
We skip ahead a couple of years to this 1913 book of "Christmas Stories" by Charles Dickens with illustrations by Spencer Baird Nichols.
You hear "Dickens" and "Christmas" so you figure one of said stories must be "A Christmas Carol," and indeed it is!
There are only four illustrations for "A Christmas Carol," but they're in color and here they are:
I must admit that I find them a bit, make that very, creepy, Tiny Tim especially. What did 1913 readers think?
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