Wootton, David / Margaret Winifred Tarrant, Helen Mary Jacobs, Beatrice May Goldsmith etc.

The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1780-1996 / 1880-1997. [With many short biographies and listings of women illustrators].

2 volumes (complete set). London, Chris Beetles Limited, 1996-1997. 21 cm x 21 cm. 543 pages includes hundreds of colour-illustrations. Original Softcover with colour illustrations on both front and back cover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Loosely inserted is the Price-list for the illustrations for their Sale on November 30th – January 25th 1996).

A wonderful, comprehesnive catalogue with excellent short-biographies of illustrators like Arthur Rackham and Kate Greenaway but also lesser known illustrators like Margaret Winifred Tarrant, Helen Mary Jacobs, Beatrice May Goldsmith, Harry Clarke etc.

Volume One (1780-1996) includes 492 colour and monochrome illustrations: Prelude: Rowlandson & Cruikshank / Fairy & Fantasy Illustration / Presenting Mr Punch / Rivals to Punch / Frank Reynolds /In Memoriam: John Strickland Goodall / Postlude: Kathleen Hale & Lesley Anne Ivory.

Volume Two (1880-1997) includes 663 colour and monochrome illustrations: Fairy & Fantasy Illustrators – Essay: Victorian Fairy Painting: A Background to Fantastic Illustration / Artists’ Club; The Langham, The Savage & The London Sketch Club – Essay: The Club Culture / The Political Cartoon; Dyson, Low, Vicky, Illingworth, Cummings – Essay: The Emergence of the New Cartoon / The Funny; Modern & Contemporary Cartooning – Essay: The Fine Art of Cartooning.

• Keywords: Art · Caricature · Cartoon · Cartoons · Catalogue Four – International Art · Catalogue Three – Literature by Women · Catalogue Two – Children’s Books · Drawings · English Art · Fairy Tales · History of Art · Illustrated Books · Illustrated Books Rare · Illustrated Children’s Books · Illustration · Inanna Modern – Art Books · Women as Illustrators · Women as Illustrators of Children’s Books
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1871136520 / 1871136
• Inventory Number: 200540AB

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