C.E.BROCK
November 8, 2007 Antiquarian No Comments
C.E.BROCK-Sir Thomas More by Anne Manning
The Household of Sir Thomas More
by
Anne Manning
With Twenty-Four Coloured Illustrations by
C.E.Brock
Published by
J.M.Dent & Co.
1906
Done In Full Light Gray Elaborate Gilt Stamped Cloth Hardcover
7-3/4″Tall
Top Edge Gilt and Deckle Edges
Vignette Pastedowns and Endpages
Complete in 185 Pages
Gorgeous Colour Vignette Title Page,Similar To Jane Austens 1909 Edition of Emma
Charles Edmund Brock (1870 – 1938) was a widely published English line artist and book illustrator, who signed his work C. E. Brock. He was the eldest of four artist brothers. He was born in Holloway, London; the family later settled in Cambridge. Charles studied art briefly under sculptor Henry Wiles.
He got his first book commission at the age of 20. He became a very successful illustrator of books authors such as Jonathan Swift, WilliamThackeray, Jane Austen, and George Eliot. He is best known for his line work, initially working in the tradition of Hugh Thomson, but he was also a skilled colourist. He and his brothers maintained a Cambridge studio filled with various curios, antiques, furniture, and a costume collection. Using these, family members would model for each other.
The approach of C.E. Brock’s work varied with the sort of story he was illustrating. Some was refined and described as “sensitive to the delicate, teacup-and-saucer primness and feminine outlook of the early Victorian novelists,” while other work was “appreciative of the healthy, boisterous, thoroughly English characters” – soldiers, rustics, and “horsey types. Other illustrations were grotesqueries drawn to amuse children looking at or reading storybooks.
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