The Art of the Illustrated Book (V&A Museum)

Title

en_US The Art of the Illustrated Book (V&A Museum)

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dustjacket (book cover)

Edited by Julius Bryant with Elizabeth James and Catherine Yvard

Creator

en_US Bryant, Julius See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Many

Date

2025-05-20T17:10:31Z

2024-06

en_US 2022

Date Available

2025-05-20T17:10:31Z

Date Issued

en_US 2022

Abstract

en_US This is apparently an American edition. The British edition was done in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum. It is an impressive coffee table book, heavy and large in format (9¼" x 12"). 288 pages. The dust jacket is a heavy-stock folded set of images taken from the book, including the title-page for the specific section on “Fables and Fairy Tales” (82-99). Juliet Ceresole, editor for this extensive segment, offers a good two-page overview of the tradition and then one or two highly illustrated pages to each of the major editions chosen here: Boner, Steinhoewel, del Tuppo, Gheeraerts, Barlow, de la Motte, Crane, Rackham, Chagall, Feng Xuefeng, Krol, and Siegl. I am happy to notice that we have all of them from Crane on plus Barlow and facsimiles of Boner and Steinhoewel. Could we ever hope for a Gheeraerts or a del Tuppo? There are some decisions that surprise me. Chagall is the only representative of La Fontaine. Krol gets surprisingly extensive coverage, though I admit that the presentation of Krol as an example of illustration no longer needing text is helpful. Krol’s FS appears three times in and around this book! Ceresole clarifies that the first dated printed illustrated book is Boner’s Edelstein in 1461 Ceresole sees two main sources for fables most known today: Bidpai and Aesop.

Identifier

en_US 13658 (Access ID)

uri

https://cdr.creighton.edu/handle/10504/158013

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Thames and Hudson

en_US New York

Subject

History See all items with this value