Just came across Virginia Sterrett's work, a dazzlingly talented female illustrator, and am just in love with her stuff. A contemporary of Kay Nielsen, she illustrated beautiful illustrations for a variety of picture books in the 1920s, including Tanglewood Tales, Old French Fairy Tales, and Arabian Nights. She died remarkably young at only 31 of tuberculosis, and I found it so impressive to read her life story (especially being a female artist myself, working in California, like she did)- she was truly a talent- hope you find her as inspiring as I do! I love the way she handles the female form, the colors, the art deco lines, and the content (fairy tales, etc) Biography Flickr Set
Beverly Cleary book covers are classics. Often, there was nothing more exciting than getting a new Cleary book and seeing what kind of young adult dramas were playing out on the page, lovingly illustrated by artists like Louis Darling and Alan…
Prang's Natural History Series for Children, 1878 I recently spent a few happy hours browsing the huge archives of the International Children's DIgital Library, in particular the incredibly rich Baldwin Collection consisting of 1986 books published for children from the mid-to-late 19th century. The collection was contributed to the ICDL by the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Materials at the University of Florida and digitized through grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The International Children's DIgital Library won the American Library Association President's 2010 Award for International Library Innovation, and was named one of 25 best websites for teaching and learning by the American Association of School Librarians. Elise Bake, Der Ball der Tiere, 1891 The scans are wonderful and I can almost smell the old yellowed paper... These nostalgic covers go very well with my own sentimental take on festivities, right next to Christmas Pudding, glass baubles and old Hollywood movies! The Dog's Grand Dinner Party, 1869 The Carrion Crow, 1880 Dash's Holiday, 1880 Child's First Book, 1880 J. Lawson, Clever Hans, 1880 Robert Michael Ballantyne, Chit-Chat by a Motherly Cat, 1888 Giacomelli, Bird Pictures, 1880 Justin H. Howard, Domestic Animals, 1884 Domestic Animals, 1880 William Small and Harrison Weir, The Childrens Posy, 1879 The Bird and Insects' Post Office, 1880 The Discontented Frogs, 1880
Publisher's chromolithographed pictorial wrappers
Jan Toorop (1858-1928) was one of the most versatile and influential Dutch artists during the fin de siècle. Toorop was member of Les XX in Brussels and introduced Symbolism and Art Nouveau in the …
Writer, illustrator, spooky legend of the macabre and noted cat lover Edward Gorey spent the 1950s as the art editor for Doubleday’s new editions of Anchor paperbacks concerning serious and academic novels. According to Goreyography, the artist was…
One of my treasured books~ "A Little Princess" My copy has an inscription dated 1919 from an aunt to her niece. Written in 1905 by Frances Hodgson Burnett and illustrated by Ethel Franklin Betts Ethel Franklin Betts [American Golden Age illustrator 1878-1956] Betts was the daughter of a physician, and the sister of the illustrator Anna Whelan Betts. Both sisters studied at respected universities and with the noted illustrator Howard Pyle. ______ My scan and digital restoration
street scene - James Avati (1912 - 2005)
“Nancy and Nick in the Land-of-Dear-Knows-Where” by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E.R. Higgins. Copyright 1921 by publisher George H. Doran Company, New York.
My father once bought several volumes of medical textbooks as a job lot from a secondhand bookshop. Why he did this I’m not quite sure. Perhaps he liked their fine red leather covers, their marbled pages, the beautiful yet gruesome illustrations of diseases contained therein. Perhaps he thought these fine volumes matched our home’s interior decor? Or maybe he hoped my brother or myself would one day study these antique books and become a medical practitioner? I certainly considered it. Indeed I nearly did apply for medicine at university but changed my mind at the last moment and chose a rather pointless arts course—my real intention had been to go to Art College and paint…but that’s another story. However, I did spend many, many, probably far too many hours poring over these books and their fabulous colored plates of medical diseases, internal organs, autopsies, arterial systems, genitals, brains and what have you. I marveled as much at the complexity and wonder of the human body and its diseases as I did at the beauty of the illustrations. These were to me works of art that deserved to be hung in some gallery rather than...
Margery Sharp: The foolish gentlewoman. Published by Collins, 1948. Jacket design by Leslie Wood. First edition.
A book cover found by Chris Ambidge and posted on Facebook: (#1) Let’s dance! Clearly from a time when gay predominantly meant ‘lighthearted, carefree, cheery’ and had not yet com…
Na segunda década do século XX o cartaz europeu foi fortemente influenciado pelos movimentos de arte moderna. Balanceando o uso de imagens expressivas e simbólicas com a organização visual, os…
Men wanted her -- but she wanted women!Strange Lusts in a nightmare of passionFrom the back:UNNATURAL SEX...was the education she had received from her high school English teacher, the depraved Paula. And she had used her education well, enjoying the beautiful instructor, until the night she saw her
Millicent Sowerby – Art Gallery of Complete Illustrations from the First Edition of the book Childhood, published in 1907.
I have been thinking of the fairy tale of the Princess and the Pea this week, as my husband couldn’t sleep – just because we had put the duvet cover on sideways. And then what should I …
thegoldenagesite CLARA ELSENE PECK 1883 ~ 1968 A Lady of King Arthur's Court by Sara Hawks Sterling Published by George W. Jacobs & Co ~ 1907
Explore David&Bonnie's 15480 photos on Flickr!
