Victorian illustrated books / Percy Muir
1971, First Edition. London : Batsford. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #407884
ISBN: 0713407255
Physical description: xv, 287 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 26 cm. Contents: The background -- Catnachery, chapbooks and children's books -- Two Colossi : Thomas Bewick and George Cruikshank -- Line engraving, with specific reference to Turner -- Pickwick, Punch and other periodicals -- The Dalziel Era -- The advent of colour -- Fin-de-Siècle -- Foreign influence -- America. Subjects: Bewick, Thomas 1753-1828; Cruikshank, George 1792-1878; Dalziel Brothers; 1800-1999; Illustration of books Great Britain 19th century; Illustration of books Great Britain 20th century; Authors; Illustrators; Engravers.
Price: €14.95