When We Were Young : Two Centuries of Childrenï¿Â½s Book Illustration / William Feaver - Hardcover
Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 96 pages; Description: 96 p. : ill. (some col. ) ; 29 cm. "Annotated list of illustrations": p. 89-96. Subjects: Children's literature --Illustrations --Illustration of books. Summary: When we were young is a comprehensive, international survey of art in children's books from William Blake to the advent of the television era in the 1950s. Feaver's introductory text discusses techniques, sources, influences, styles and the illustrators themselves: Tenniel, Crane, Doyle, Rackham, Beatrix Potter, Heinrich Hoffman, Cruikshank, Burra, Lear, Sendak and many more. Here for the art lover, the art historian, the children's book specialist, the connoisseur, the nostalgia buff, is an enchanting voyage through the children's books of two hundred years. The plate section includes more than one hundred twenty-three illustrations, forty-four in color, each one fully annotated.
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- PublisherThames & Hudson
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 0030203066
- ISBN 13 9780030203060
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages96
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WHEN WE WERE YOUNG: TWO CENTURIE
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Holt, Rinehart and Winston
(1977)
ISBN 10: 0030203066
ISBN 13: 9780030203060
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