# bookillustrationoftheday

Ah...the humble Contents Page...how pleasing it is when it's purely functional purpose is lifted by something imaginative....and an architectural start to Thomas Crane's "London Town"......#ForgottenChildrensBooks

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2020-07-24

Ah...the humble Contents Page...how pleasing it is when it's purely functional purpose is lifted by something imaginative....you could say that this Contents Page is growing on him........#ForgottenChildrensBooks

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2020-07-24

An alphabet full of Illustrators...X is for...not too many illustrators! Let's look at some vintage XYZs instead!....#ForgottenChildrensBooks

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2020-07-24

An often overlooked Art-form...a Book's End Papers...Some Dugald Stewart Walker endpapers with just a little nod to much earlier Japanese illustration!....#ForgottenChildrensBooks

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2020-07-23

An alphabet full of Illustrators...W is for...Dugald Stewart Walker a US artist... described upon his debut... as... "an artist of remarkable talent, suggesting Rackham and Dulac but entirely original in spirit and execution"....#ForgottenChildrensBooks

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2020-07-23

An alphabet full of Illustrators...U is for...Josef Ulrich, a 19th Century Czech illustrator. Almost nothing is known about his life. He is accused of often overemphasising humour and therefore demeaning many of his characters.#ForgottenChildrensBooks

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2020-07-21

An alphabet full of Illustrators...U is for...Josef Ulrich, a 19th Century Czech illustrator. Almost nothing is known about his life. He is accused of often overemphasising humour and therefore demeaning many of his characters.#ForgottenChildrensBooks

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2020-07-21

An alphabet full of Illustrators...U is for...Josef Ulrich, a 19th Century Czech illustrator. Almost nothing is known about his life. He is accused of often overemphasising humour and therefore demeaning many of his characters.#ForgottenChildrensBooks

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2020-07-21

An alphabet full of Illustrators...U is for...Josef Ulrich, a 19th Century Czech illustrator. Almost nothing is known about his life. He is accused of often overemphasising humour and therefore demeaning many of his characters.#ForgottenChildrensBooks

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2020-07-21

An alphabet full of Illustrators...T is for...Harry George Theaker an English illustrator of children's books who was active in the pre War years, working both in line drawn and full colour illustration.
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2020-07-20

An alphabet full of Illustrators...S is for...Ellen (known as Nellie) Syrett, an artist born in Ramsgate in Kent. Her most well known works are for "The Other Side of the Sun" by Evelyn Sharp published in 1900...
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2020-07-19

An alphabet full of Illustrators...S is for...Ellen (known as Nellie) Syrett, an artist born in Ramsgate in Kent. Her most well known works are for "The Other Side of the Sun" by Evelyn Sharp published in 1900...
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2020-07-19

An alphabet full of Illustrators...S is for...Ellen (known as Nellie) Syrett, an artist born in Ramsgate in Kent. Her most well known works are for "The Other Side of the Sun" by Evelyn Sharp published in 1900...
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2020-07-19

An alphabet full of Illustrators...S is for...Ellen (known as Nellie) Syrett, an artist born in Ramsgate in Kent. Her most well known works are for "The Other Side of the Sun" by Evelyn Sharp published in 1900...
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2020-07-19

An alphabet full of Illustrators...R is for...Ida Shelbourne Rentoul, also known as Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, an Australian artist and illustrator of children's books which had more than a few Fairies!
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2020-07-18

An alphabet full of Illustrators...P is for...Margaret Evans Price, an American artist who along with her husband founded the Fisher Price Toy Company in 1930. Some of their earliest toys were designs taken from her books
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2020-07-16

An alphabet full of Illustrators...P is for...Margaret Evans Price, an American artist who along with her husband founded the Fisher Price Toy Company in 1930. Some of their earliest toys were designs taken from her books
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2020-07-16

Some more vintage Books Posters... some Spanish examples......this 1951 example from Ricard Jose Caballero...for Dia Del Libro "The Day of the Book"..#ForgottenChildrensBooks

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2020-07-15

An often overlooked Art-form...a Book's End Papers...Here...some end papers teeming with LIfe!.#ForgottenChildrensBooks

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2020-07-15

An alphabet full of Illustrators...O is for...Lola Onslow, an artist who worked in the pre, and the immediate post WWII period, including illustrations for Enid Blyton...
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2020-07-15