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Published by London, Chris Beetles Limited, 1996-1997., 1997
Seller: Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, CORK, Ireland
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2 volumes (complete set). 21 cm x 21 cm. 543 pages includes hundreds of colour-illustrations. Original Softcover with colour illustrations on both front and back cover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Loosely inserted is the Price-list for the illustrations for their Sale on November 30th - January 25th 1996). A wonderful, comprehesnive catalogue with excellent short-biographies of illustrators like Arthur Rackham and Kate Greenaway but also lesser known illustrators like Margaret Winifred Tarrant, Helen Mary Jacobs, Beatrice May Goldsmith, Harry Clarke etc. Volume One (1780-1996) includes 492 colour and monochrome illustrations: Prelude: Rowlandson & Cruikshank / Fairy & Fantasy Illustration / Presenting Mr Punch / Rivals to Punch / Frank Reynolds /In Memoriam: John Strickland Goodall / Postlude: Kathleen Hale & Lesley Anne Ivory. Volume Two (1880-1997) includes 663 colour and monochrome illustrations: Fairy & Fantasy Illustrators - Essay: Victorian Fairy Painting: A Background to Fantastic Illustration / Artists' Club; The Langham, The Savage & The London Sketch Club - Essay: The Club Culture / The Political Cartoon; Dyson, Low, Vicky, Illingworth, Cummings - Essay: The Emergence of the New Cartoon / The Funny; Modern & Contemporary Cartooning - Essay: The Fine Art of Cartooning. Sprache: english.