The Art of the Illustrated Book (V&A Museum)
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Bryant, Julius
James, Elizabeth
Yvard, Catherine
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2022
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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.
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Thames and Hudson
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13658 (Access ID)