Kemble's 2nd Set of Illustrations

In the late 1890s MT had two publishers: Harper's had bought most of the copyrights to his work as part of the bankruptcy settlement, but his original publishers, the American Publishing Company (now under the direction of Elisha Bliss' son, Frank) continued to bring out MT's work as well. Around 1898, one of these companies, or perhaps both working together, hired E. W. Kemble to do new illustrations that wound up in editions of Huck Finn that both publishers were bringing out. In 1899 the APC published the four new Kembles below in Volume 13 of its upscale "Édition de Luxe" (limited to 1000 numbered sets) of The Writings of Mark Twain. At about the same time, Harper's published three of the drawings (the 1st, 3rd and 4th below) in their multi-volume Library Edition of Mark Twain's Works, the first of the many "complete works" of MT they published between the late 1890s and the middle of the 20th century, all of which continued to use the same 3 Kemble illustrations.


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