A Treasury of the Great Children's Book Illustrators.
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Meyer, Susan E.
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1987
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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.
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Abradale Press/H.N. Abrams
Abradale Press/Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Abradale Press/Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
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1882 (Access ID)