illustrations, many in chromolithographed plates by G H Thompson
Late Victorian book buyers were greatly attracted to books for children in which the characters were entirely drawn from the Victorian menagerie of exotic creatures endowed with human characteristics and costumed in the fashions of the day.
Thompson’s great skill was to draw animals that were instantly recognizable human types.
Nister books were produced for the better-off households, many of which employed private tutors to develop the potential of their offspring. They were well served by Thompson’s richly colored anthropomorphist fantasies
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