EXTRACTS: The Art of Ron Embleton (illustrators special) © 2018 The Book Palace (144 PAGES in Full edition)

99 defined so much of Ron’s work and provided a perfect accompaniment to Dickens’ texts. In addition, and never one to stand still, Ron devised a best-selling series of prints under the title, ‘Victorian Children’s Street Games’. The prints were so successful that they spawned another line of prints under the title ‘Edwardian Street Traders’. Despite the short-term hiccup that the abortive theme-park commission had occasioned, Ron was back in full throttle, burning the midnight oil and adding calendars for Eversheds (which also revisited Edwardian and Dickensian themes) as well as calendars Text continues on page 128