Limehouse Nights ILLUSTRATIONS

Limehouse Nights

by Thomas Burke

Illustrated by Mahlon Blaine

A short story collection by the British writer Thomas Burke. The stories are set in and around the Chinatown that was then centred on Limehouse in the East End of London. It was a popular success and features several of Burke's best-known stories such as The Chink and the Child and Beryl and the Croucher. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limehouse_Nights)

copyright 1917 & 1926

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Thomas Burke (29 November 1886 \u2013 22 September 1945) was a British author. He was born in Eltham, London (back then still part of Kent). (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Burke_(author))

Mahlon Blaine's (1894-1969) best work walked the razor's edge between the grotesque and beautiful. Though few facts of his life are verifiable, insomuch as anyone can gather, he lived in that no man\u2019s land as well. A childhood accident left the artist \u2013 who was born in 1894 - blind in his left eye, an accident that contributes to the flattened perspective that marks his work. Though he alleged to have seen combat in World War I, the Army rarely drafted the half blind. A well-documented chronic injury to his left arm was unlikely to have come from a war wound. The plate in his head of which he boasted was probably fictional. Few photographs of the artist survive, but his self-portraits further the likely fake war hero persona. (source: http://grapefruitmoongallery.com/artists/mahlon-blaine)

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