Laura V and I talked about art in comments under the last post, she wanted examples. I thought I had the book with me, but it was a different book. It’s probably in one of book boxes we haven’t yet opened since we moved in here.
However, I did find one example, then I thought I ought to scan two awesome illustrations, so I’m uploading three scans from A Treasury of the Great Children’s Book Illustrators.
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L-to-R: Howard Pyle, Kay Nielsen, Walter Crane
This book is awesome. There aren’t many illustrations, but crammed with profiles of various children’s book illustrators, in a period between 1812 and 1886, which includes Edward Lear, John Tenniel, Walter Crane Randolph Caldecott; Kate Greenaway, Beatrix Potter, Ernest H. Shepard, Arthur Rackham; Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen, Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, and W.W. Denslow.
It was actually a cousin’s school prize. When I found it on a shelf in the cupboard under the stairs at his parents’ home, he said I could have it. Whoo! It’s one of few books I took with me when I left home. I couldn’t abandon it, even though it’s oversized and rather heavy.
Actually, I think it’s one of twelve oversized/coffee table books I couldn’t give up since I left home. Other books are photography (such as photo journalism, particularly war journalism), illustration and art, and graphic design. Some were given to me by various people (including a tourist/photographer who was fed-up lugging it around during his travelling; he’d bought the book in Edinburgh on his way up!) and two I bought after weeks and weeks of saving pocket money.
Saving up for In Our Time by Magnum took me so long. I’d have it buried with me in my grave, because of how sheer bloody-minded my determination was for this book. You know what pissed me off? That damn book wasn’t that good. 
Book details: A Treasury of the Great Children’s Book Illustrators by Susan E. Meyer (Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers; 1983; ISBN 0-8109-0782-8). [Amazon.com for an inside look.]
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