Seventeen ink drawings (340 x 230 mm). plus one ink and watercolour drawing all signed and captioned and all in mounts; the odd foxing spot but generally in excellent condition preserved in a folio cloth-covered fall-down-back box with a morocco spine the spine lettered in gilt this box now has slight wear and some marks; sold together with a copy of Catriona containing these illustrations. Catriona is R.L. Stevenson's sequel to Kidnapped and was first published in 1893. Charles Brock's drawings were produced for an edition published in Macmillan's 'Illustrated Pocket Classics' series in 1928 though the watercolour he painted for the frontispiece was not actually included in the book. Charles Edmund Brock (1870-1938) and his brother Henry Matthew Brock (1875-1960) were both prolific and versatile book illustrators. They were in the front rank of British book and magazine illustrators in the 1890s and first quarter of the twentieth century. Among the many English classics illustrated by C.E. Brock are Gulliver's Travels Westward Ho! Ivanhoe Robinson Crusoe The Vicar of Wakefield Silas Marner and Lorna Doone, as well as the complete works of Thackeray and Charles Lamb all of Jane Austen's novels and numerous works by Dickens. He was also a portrait painter in later years specializing in Cambridge college and town dignitaries. Coloured plates in order: 1. Catriona.