Modern book illustrators and their work

Modern book illustrators and their work

THE Editors desire to express their thanks to the artists whose work is represented for the valuable assistance they have rendered in the preparation of this volume. They also wish to acknowledge the courtesy of the following publishers who have kindly given permission for illustrations from their books to appear: Messrs. B. T. Batsford; Messrs. George Bell and Sons; Messrs. A. and C. Black; Messrs. Blackie and Son; Messrs. Chatto and Windus; Messrs. Constable and Co.; Messrs. J. M. Dent and Sons; Mr. T. N. Foulis; Messrs. George G. Harrap and Co.; Mr. William Heinemann; Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton; Mr. John Lane; Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.; Messrs. Macmillan and Co.; Messrs. Maunsel and Co.; Mr. David Nutt; Messrs. Alston Rivers; Messrs. Otto Schulze and Co.; and Mr. Philip Lee Warner. The title of the book and the name of the publisher are given under each of these illustrations. HO does not love a picture-book? Yet how few comparatively still love it for anything but the pleasure of recognizing images mentally familiar or readily suggestedpersonalities, incidents, scenesirrespective of any sensuous gratification from artistic qualities of presentation, of design, of composition! How few, in short, appreciate the distinction between illustration that is merely reproductive and illustration that is both interpretative and decorative! This appreciation is certainly on the increase, but, much as the artists and the makers of books are doing to stimulate it, much remains to do. The appeal of the picture-book is universal; but the Book Beautiful, in which the printed text and the illustrative scheme are conceived as a decorative whole, is as yet a rare thing. How much our joy in a book may be enhanced by pictorial embellishment must depend, of course, upon our individual conception of illustration in relation to the permanent elements of pictorial art. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 65994
Author: Salaman, Malcolm C. (Malcolm Charles)
Release Date: Aug 5, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Editor: Halton, Ernest G., 1887-1954 , Holme, C. Geoffrey (Charles Geoffrey), 1887-1954