When we were young : two centuries of children's book illustration / by William Feaver - Tapa dura

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.