Novels with great art

Lord Dunsany wrote fantasy stories illustrated by Sidney Sime. You might like them if you can track them down. Pic related from The Gods Of Pegana.

The original illustrations for the Alice books are nice af.

here's one more. the text is in pdf form on archive.org because it's public domain

I think you should keep literature and art separate. They both have their own merits.
I'm an artist myself and can drop some names.
Look into the golden age of illustration, Mead schaffer (pic related), leyendecker, N.C. Wyeth etc.
Frazetta and Jeff Jones are painters from the 20th century.
Rembrant has great etchings. Rodin is a great sculptor. Of course the old masters work too.(MIchelangelo, Da vinci etc.)
Sargeant is the go-to draw-what-you-see artist.
The pics you posted dont really have any real artistic merit.

>who is george cruikshank

What a pinhead

sorry, I judge art by how good it is, not by how popular it was.

your idea that literature and art should be separated is silly enough that I thought you were baitposting

To put it in other words I was naming artists that are important to art, not artists that relate to literature.
Why is it silly? Art (painting) is a visual represantation of a scene. Literature is a idea expressed in words. They are completely different. Atleast thats how I see it.

It's silly because if visual art and literature were not allowed to meet, then there would be no Cruikshank, or Sidney Sime, or William Blake, or any volume with line drawings or even covers. These things can complement and enhance literature.

You have a reductive attitude, so it is a wonder that you say you are an artist.

Illustration in books then is a visual represantation of text, which is often there to aid the text. Of course these can be good too (moomin illustrations are pretty comfy), but if OP really wants to dwelve into great art he has to look outside book illustration.
Sorry my point came out pretty rough in the first post