A great American novelist, illustrated by a great American artist – now available in a collectable two-volume set.<\/p>\n
In 1936, the Heritage Press, a publisher of fine editions, commissioned Norman Rockwell to illustrate Mark Twain’s Adventures of Tom Sawyer<\/em>; four years later, they asked him to illustrate The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/em> as well. For each book, Rockwell created eight full-colour 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>\n For years, the Rockwell editions of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn have been unavailable in stores. Now, Abbeville Press is proud to reissue them as a handsome new clothbound set. The colour 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>\n Also available: Treasure Island<\/em> and Kidnapped<\/em> boxed set ISBN 9780789214089<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A great American novelist, illustrated by a great American artist – now available in a collectible two-volume set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13146,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5840,21064],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13145","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-childrens-books","7":"product_cat-sport-recreation","8":"author-by-author-mark-twain","9":"author-illustrated-by-norman-rockwell","10":"publisher-abbeville-press","11":"series-abbeville-illustrated-classics","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n