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The French edition of HG Wells's War of the Worlds was published in 1900, and after several successful editions, it was reprinted in 1906 with illustrations from the Brazilian artist Henrique Alvim Corrêa.

They're superb

publicdomainreview.org/collection/hen…

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Even more interesting: Corrêa did the first batch of illustrations on spec, and went to London to pitch them to Wells in 1903. Wells insisted that a forthcoming Belgian edition include Corrêa's art: "Alvim Corrêa did more for my work with his brush than I with my pen."

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Corrêa's illustrations are far superior to the original drawings that
Warwick Goble did for the first English edition:

johnguycollick.com/warwick-gobles…

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As the @PublicDomainRev writes, "There is something visceral about almost all of Corrêa’s images... The illustration of the Martians training their fiery death beam may be familiar to us from 1000 comic books but it also conjures visions of the very real Great War to come."

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