T. Edgar Pemberton, illustrated by Kate E. Bunce

Fairbrass: A Children’s Story

(Cornish Brothers, 1895)

Painter and illustrator Kate Elizabeth Bunce (1856-1927) was trained, along with her sister Myra, at the Birmingham School of Art.  Her father John Thackray Bunce was an early supporter of the school and of the municipal museum (now the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery).  The working proof shows Bunce’s sketch for the illustrated initial, visible in its final state in the published volume.