Postcards from the nursery : the illustrators of children's books and postcards 1900-1950 / by Dawn & Peter Cope
2000, First Edition. London : New Cavendish Books. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Item #305033
ISBN: 1872727883
Physical description; 288 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cm. Notes; Bibliography: page 285. - Includes index. Contents; Preface -- Little treasures -- A miscellany of messages -- A prelude to the postcard. Advances in printing techniques; An era of change; Postcard legislation and the postal services; Postcards in advertsing -- Advertising books with postcards -- The rise of women artists -- Popular children's themes. Nursery rhymes; Fairy tales; Fairyland; Games, pastimes and novelties; Toys, dolls, teddy bears and amusements; Animals dressed as humans; Humour and riddles; Dutch children; Seasonal festivals; Patriotic postcards in wartime; Children's fashions -- The magic of the painting book -- Publishing children's postcards. the Art & Humour Company ; Augener ; A & C Black ; Delittle Fenwick & Co ; CW Faulkner ; Fuller & Richard ; Gale & Polden ; Liberty & Co ; A Vivian Mansell ; The Medici Society ; Humphrey Milfod/Henry Frowde ; Ernest Nister ; The Photochrome Company ; Ruddock ; Salmon of Sevenoaks ; EW Savory ; Raphael Tuck & Sons ; Valentine & Song ; Wildt & Kray -- The illustrators. Cecil Aldin ; Anne Anderson ; Florence Mary Anderson ; Ellen Jessie Andrews ; Honor Appleton ; Mabel Lucie Attwell ; Margaret Banks ; Sybil Barham ; Cicely Mary Barker ; Doris Bowden ; Sophie May & Ada Leonora Bowley ; Molly Brett ; Barbara Briggs ; Nina Kennard Brisley & her sisters ; Randolph Caldecott ; Dorothy Carleton-Smyth ; René Cloke ; Phyllis Cooper ; Kate Cowderoy ; Hilda Cowham ; Rie Cramer ; Muriel Dawson ; Marjorie Dexter ; Walt Disney ; Linda Edgerton ; William Ellam ; Charles Folkard ; Maude Goodman ; Lilian Govey ; Lilian Price Hacker ; Evelyn Stuart Hardy ; Florence Hardy ; John Hassall ; Racey Helps ; Lydia Margaret Hine ; Eva Hollyer ; Eileen Hood ; James Horrabin ; Sydney Hulme Beaman ; Helen Jackson ; Helen Jacobs ; Ivy Millicent James ; AE Kennedy ; Jessie M King ; Ethel Larcombe ; Hester Margetson ; HGC Marsh Lambert ; Joyce Mercer ; Hilda Miller ; Olwen Morgan ; Kathleen Nixon ; Ida Outhwaite ; Phylis Palmer ; Ethel Parkinson ; Rollo Paterson ; Susan Pearse ; Gladys Peto ; Joyce Plumstead ; Chloë Preston ; Eugenie Richards ; Agnes Richardson ; Jennifer Rickard ; Freda Mabel Rose ; Harry Rountree ; Hilda Dix Sandford ; CE Shand ; May Smith ; Millicent Sowerby ; Lorna Steele ; Margaret Tarrant ; Margaret Tempest ; GH Thompson ; Mary Tourtel ; Florence Upton ; Louis Wain ; Ellen Welby ; Dorothy Wheeler ; Flora White ; Henriette Willebeek le Mair ; Madge Williams ; Alan Wright -- Appendices. Book and postcard listings by artist ; Book and postcard listings by publisher. Subjects; Illustrated children's books Great Britain History 20th century. Illustrators Great Britain ; Biography. Postcards for children Great Britain History 20th century. Illustrators. Illustrated children's books. Postcards for children. Illustrators Great Britain ; Biography. Illustrated children's books. Illustrators. Postcards for children. Illustrateurs Grande-Bretagne ; Biographies. Illustration - Children's Books - [20th Century - United Kingdom]. Illustration - Postcards - [20th Century - United Kingdom]. Great Britain. Children Depictions. Children's book illustration British Isles (1900-1949). Postcards British Isles (1900-1949). Genres; Bibliography. Biography. History. Illustrated.
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