Author: Pitz, Henry C
Title: Illustrating Children's Books: History - Technique - Production
Description: NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, (1963). (1963). NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, (1963). (1963). Very good. - 4to, blue cloth (very lightly bumped; top edges of covers slightly faded) titled in gilt on spine, in dw (rubbed & lightly chipped; dw spine slightly faded; extremities darkened). 207 pp. (edges of endpapers slightly faded). Profuse full-page & textual illustrations in B&W & color. Very good.

Review copy from the library of bibliophile and pressman Fridolf Johnson inscribed to him by the author on Johnson's bookplate mounted on the front pastedown: "For Fridolf with friendship and admiration Henry C. Pitz". There is a handwritten note "Jacket by Fridolf Johnson" on the front flap of the dw.

Laid in is the publisher's Review Copy slip, a leaflet (folded) advertising the book and a leaflet advertising a book on children's book illustration by Susan Meyer. Very good .

Keywords: CHILDREN'S; ILLUSTRATED; REFERENCE; ILLUSTRATION; ILLUSTRATORS; HISTORY OF ILLUSTRATION; ILLUSTRATION TECHNIQUES; HENRY C. PITZ; REVIEW COPY; REVIEW COPY; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; AUTOGRAPH; FRIDOLF JOHNSON; BOOKS-ON-BOOKS; ART. (Children's & Illus

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