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In the Morning of Time

Frank Ver Beck

First published 1919
Type Interior Art

  • Ver Beck illustrated the first publications of Chapters 7 to 12, among 14 chapters in the book. Those were 6 stories published March to August 1914 in the last six issues of The Pall Mall Magazine, v53:3-8; under no consistent general title but usually presented with "When Earth Was Young" somewhere in the header. (Paul Bransom illustrated the same stories for their US magazine publications --all at least one month later-- and the first five of them among ch. 3-11 in Sunset under the general title "In the Morning of Time".)
  • The 1919 book contains only 8 illustrations, the frontispiece and 7 plates not included in the pagination. Four of the 7 plates are by Ver Beck, from the 1914 magazine stories, and legibly lettered "FRANK VER BECK". See the plates facing pp. 174, 180, 202, 220. They illustrate chapters 7-9 only. (The other three plates appear to be not signed, not from the first UK magazine publications, and not by Paul Bransom. See those facing pp. 60, 198, 308.)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1919 In the Morning of Time Hutchinson Novel