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Showing posts with label book illustration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book illustration. Show all posts
Friday, 8 August 2025

Ludgate Circus in Illustration and Postcard

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This unsigned illustration comes from an Ernest Nister illustrated children’s book, The Scrapbook of Trains (c.1900). An atmospheric renderi...
Wednesday, 12 March 2025

Alphabet Books - ABC du Père Castor

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For an illustrator a pictorial alphabet book presents a number of challenges, not least of which is the shortage of words beginning with q, ...
Sunday, 3 November 2024

Leslie Carr illustrates "By Road, Rail, Air and Sea" (1931)

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Fourteen years have passed since I last wrote about the illustrator and poster artist, Leslie Carr and noted the lack of online biographica...
Tuesday, 28 November 2023

Walt Disney’s Family Album (1937)

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It’s impossible to over estimate the extent to which the emotional life of every child exposed to the output of the Disney Corporation is fo...
Wednesday, 22 November 2023

T E North on the High Seas

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The book illustrations of T E North were featured here a few months ago when we posted about an aviation picture book ( Airways ) published...
Thursday, 31 August 2023

Airways 1939

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This is a slim pictorial board covered, large format picture book for children published by Blackie in 1939. There are 13 colour illustratio...
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