When We Were Young: Two Centuries of Children's Book Illustration - Hardcover

Feaver, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0030203066 ISBN 13: 9780030203060

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977

Synopsis

4to. 96 pp, Two centuries of children's book illustration; The color and b&w Plates; annotated list of illustrations, acknowledgments. First Edition, 1977. Red cloth with yellow lettering to front board and spine. ``This book is a comprehensive international survey of art in children's books from William Blake to the advent of the television era in the 1950s. The author's introductory text discusses technques, sources, influences, styles and the illustrators themselves: Tenniel, Crane, Doyle, Rackman, Cruikshank, Burra, Lear, Sendakand many more. The plate selection includes more than 123 illustrations, forty-four incolor, each one fully annotated." from the jacket flap.

About this edition

• Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0030203066
• ISBN 13: 9780030203060
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96