[19] Notwithstanding this promise Sandys only made one drawing, "Joseph hearing the Voice of the Lord," for the "Bible."
[20] Unfortunately, Sandys never sent in one drawing for the book.
[CHAPTER VII.]
Tom Hood, Edward Wylam, Henry Sampson, Paul Gray, H. S. Leigh, W. S. Gilbert, Tom Robertson, Clement Scott, G. A. Sala, Arthur Sketchley, W. J. Prowse, Ashby Sterry, C. H. Leland, Godfrey Turner, Dutton Cook, George R. Sims, Henry Doyle, A. B. Houghton, R.W.S., F. Barnard, G. Thomson, Professor von Herkomer, R.A., Sir John Gilbert, R.A., Hal Ludlow, G. J. Pinwell, R.W.S., E. G. Dalziel, F. A. Fraser, J. F. Sullivan, Lord Dunraven, Ernest Griset, Edward Lear, John Ruskin.
Early in 1865 Mr. Edward Wylam became proprietor of the comic periodical Fun—at that time the only competitor of Punch—and was fortunate enough to secure Tom Hood as editor. On taking up the direction, Hood informed us that one of the stipulations he made with Wylam was that we should be solicited to undertake the engraving of all the drawings. At first we felt some hesitation in accepting the commission, thinking it might considerably interfere with very important works we were then engaged upon; but ultimately satisfactory arrangements were concluded, and our relationship continued in the most amicable manner, without a break for six years. In 1870—Mr. Wylam wishing to devote his entire attention to the development of "Spratt's Dog Biscuits," the patent for which he had recently purchased—we became the sole proprietors of the publication, paying for the goodwill and copyright the sum of £6,000, Hood continuing editor until his death.
The Old Year and the New.