A Treasury of the Great Children's Book Illustrators.

Title

en_US A Treasury of the Great Children's Book Illustrators.

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Susan E. Meyer

Creator

en_US Meyer, Susan E.

Contributor

en_US Various

Date

2016-01-25T16:07:59Z

en_US 1993-07

en_US 1987

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:07:59Z

Date Issued

en_US 1987

Abstract

en_US Abradale/Abrams imprints are reprints of backlist favorites designed to sell at popular prices. This is a beautiful book. Lavishly illustrated in large format, it presents thirteen artists born in the nineteenth century. Those directly associated with fables include Rackham (note the full-page colored fable illustration on 15), Tenniel, and Ernest H. Shepard, whose work I do not yet have. The long introduction is informative on the history of the legitimacy of children's literature. Fable was a strong genre for children, both in school and at home, by 1600. Fairy tales became the legitimate stuff of children's books in France by 1700 through Perrault, but not so in England for at least one hundred years. Nursery rhymes had not been collected at all before 1800. In the course of the nineteenth century, stories came to be written and illustrated expressly for children and expressly to entertain them.

Identifier

en_US 810980819

en_US 1882 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77448

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Abradale Press/H.N. Abrams

en_US New York, NY

Subject

en_US NC965.M49 1987

en_US Art book

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole