Simon Houfe - The Dictionary of 19th Century British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists
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Simon Houfe - The Dictionary of 19th Century British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists - Woodbridge - Antique Collectors Club Ltd. - 1998 - Revised reprint - [368] pp - Cloth binding with dust jacket - 22 x 28,5 cm.
Condition: Excellent.
Standard work with a thorough alphabetical overview of 19th century artists and cartoonists who were involved in illustrating books in Great-Britain. Illustrated with photo's and reproductions in black and white and COLOUR. With bibliography and checklist of monograms and signatures. Hardback edition ('extensively revised').
The book deals with i.a. the Pre-Raphaelites, Sir Laurence Alma Tadema, Aubrey Beardsley, William Blake, Randolph Caldecott, Walter Crane, Edmund Dulac, Kate Greenaway, John Martin (Bible illustrations), J. Everett Millais, Arthur Rackham, Charles Paul Renouard, William Heath Robinson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Thomas Rowlandson, John Singer Sargent, Sir John Tenniel, Hugh Thomson, James McNeill Whistler, and Jack Butler Yeats.
¶ A supplementary volume on 20th century illustrators (by Alan Horne) was also published. Indispensable reference work for antiquarians and collectors.