THE MEN WHO DREW FOR BOYS (AND GIRLS): 101 FORG. KIRKPATRICK<|

Name: THE MEN WHO DREW FOR BOYS (AND GIRLS): 101 FORG. KIRKPATRICK<|
Brand: Independently Published

Independently Published

THE MEN WHO DREW FOR BOYS (AND GIRLS): 101 FORGOTTEN ILLUSTRATORS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS 1844 \u2013 1970 Paperback \u2013 21 May 2019\n\nDescription\nThis book records the lives and works of 101 \u201Cforgotten\u201D illustrators of children\u2019s books. For the most part, they worked during what has been called the \u201CGolden Age\u201D of children\u2019s book illustration, but while they were contemporaneous with artists such as Walter Crane, Edmund Dulac, Louis Wain, Arthur Rackham, Cecil Aldin and Randolph Caldecott, most are now barely remembered (if, indeed, they are remembered at all). They were all commissioned to provide illustrations for children\u2019s fiction, for the thousands of historical, adventure, school, mystery, war, Wild West and other novels that were published from the 1869s onwards. Many also illustrated other types of children\u2019s books - picture books for the nursery, fairy stories, bible stories, and school readers and textbooks. Some were remarkably pro.