EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 12 © 2015 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

72 Sidney Sime Cleaver Patterson ushers us into the unsettling realms of one of the earliest and most unique purveyors of weird and haunting illustration ABOVE: Sime at the height of his powers. He was, by this stage of his career, a man of some wealth, having come into a sizeable inheritance as well as having achieved a degree of commercial success. His favoured techniques often involved the application of wash, charcoal, ink, lampblack and washes of Chinese white paint, which sometimes proved beyond the scope of early 20th century print technology.