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Originally Posted by HarryT
Why don't you want illustrations? They can enormously enhance the book, to my mind. The original illustrations by "Phiz" that most Dickens novels have, for example, make it so much easier to "picture" Victorian life, as it was, than do the words alone. They are just as much a part of the book as is the text, to my mind.
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Agreed, but they can open another copyright "can of worms". Example, Frank Pape' did wonderful illustrations for James Branch Cabell books in the 1920's. But he died 20 years later than Cabell. In life + countries, they become PD later than the text....