Abbeville Illustrated Classics The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: Norman Rockwell Collector's Edition, (Hardcover)

<p>In 1936, the Heritage Press, a publisher of fine editions, commissioned Norman Rockwell to illustrate Mark Twain's <em>Adventures of Tom Sawyer</em>; four years later, they asked him to illustrate <em>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</em> as well. For each book, Rockwell created eight full-color paintings and numerous pen-and-ink drawings, the product of extensive on-the-ground research in Twain's hometown of Hannibal, Missouri. Famously, Rockwell even tried to buy some Hannibal residents' old clothes, to dress his models in.</p><p>For years, the Rockwell editions of <em>Tom Sawyer</em> and <em>Huckleberry Finn</em> have been unavailable in stores. Now, Abbeville Press is proud to reissue them as a handsome new clothbound set. The color plates are reproduced from new photography of Rockwell's original paintings, the typesetting has been done anew to a high standard, and new introductions--illustrated with Rockwell's rarely seen preliminary sketches--examine this unique encounter between two legendary chroniclers of America.</p><p>Publisher's note: These volumes present Mark Twain's text unabridged and unedited, as it appeared in the original American editions of <em>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer</em> (1876) and <em>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</em> (1885).</p>

• Abbeville Illustrated Classics The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: Norman Rockwell Collector's Edition, (Hardcover)
• Author: Abbeville Press
• ISBN: 9780789213679
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2020-10-20
• Page Count: 640