Author: Buchanan-Brown, John
Title: Early Victorian Illustrated Books: Britain, France, and Germany, 1820-1860
Description: London, Oak Knoll Press, 2005. Hardcover. Dark blue fabric casebound book. There is a dust jacket with the title in black down a blue spine. Pages: (6), 7-320. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white images. Contents are as follows: I. THE FRENCH CONNECTION. The Revival of Wood-engraving. -- Steel, Copper and Stone. -- Books for the People. -- British Engravers and Publishers.; II. GERMAN INFLUENCES. Techniques of Graphic Reproduction. -- Professional Illustrators. -- The Painters. -- German Influences upon British Book Design and Illustration.; III. SOME BRITISH PUBLISHERS AND ARTISTS. The Publishers : John Van Voorst ; Thomas Longman and John Murray ; Charles Tilt and David Bogue. -- The Artists : William Harvey and John Gilbert ; Samuel Williams and Myles Birket Foster ; George Cruikshank ; Alfred Crowquill, William Makepeace Thackeray, and John Leech ; Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz) and Richard Doyle ; The Landscape Painters ; Henry Warren, National Painters and Members of the Etching Club ; William Mulready and Daniel Maclise ; The Germanists : Joseph Noel Paton, F.R. Pickersgill, John Tenniel, H.C. Selous and John Franklin.; IV. ACHIEVEMENT AND DECLINE. Social Criticism. -- Children's Books and Artists. -- Romantic Book Design. -- Conservatism: Some Uses of Stone and Steel in France. -- The End of the Era. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Stamp on front free end page. Stamp, sticker, and due date card on back free end page. Stamp on top text block. Sticker on dust jacket at the base of the spine.

Keywords: Books and Manuscripts and Printing ; Victorian Illustrated Books ; ;


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