Came across this book recently and was immediately attracted to it by is cover…..they just don’t do book covers like this anymore…stunning!
The content is selection of re-workings of stories from [...] Continue Reading…
February 17th, 2010 | Posted in Public Domain, Vintage Book Illustration | 1 Comment
Happy New Year to those of you who like to celebrate such things (not really into it myself – it was 2009……now its 2010…so what??!).
Anyway, onto more interesting matters. [...] Continue Reading…
January 4th, 2010 | Posted in Public Domain, Vintage Book Illustration | 3 Comments
First off, any apologies for the distinct lack of posts on here in an excessively long time. Real life getting in the way and such…Anyway, back to normality so [...] Continue Reading…
December 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Public Domain, Vintage Book Illustration, eBay | 6 Comments
Regular readers may know that I am a great enthusiast of the Big Apple. The images I have for you today are taken from the 1939 publication New York [...] Continue Reading…
October 14th, 2009 | Posted in Public Domain, Vintage Book Illustration | 7 Comments
No introduction should be neccessary for regular readers of this blog to the work of Arthur Rackham – one Englands greatest illustrators. The images I have for you today [...] Continue Reading…
September 25th, 2009 | Posted in Vintage Book Illustration | 1 Comment
These fantastic hand coloured wood-cuts are taken from the 16th Century astronomy text Astronomicum Caesareum by Petrus Apian. Taking several years to produce at his private print shop in [...] Continue Reading…
September 6th, 2009 | Posted in Public Domain, Vintage Book Illustration | 3 Comments
Bookplates, also refered to as ex-libris [Latin for "from the books of..."], are small decorative labels which indicate the owner of a book. They generally appear inside the font [...] Continue Reading…
August 21st, 2009 | Posted in Public Domain, Vintage Book Illustration, eBay | 6 Comments
Warwick Goble was a Victorian illustrator who enjoyed his greatest success during the early decades of the 20th century when there was a great demand for colour plate illustrations. [...] Continue Reading…
August 2nd, 2009 | Posted in Public Domain, Vintage Book Illustration | 3 Comments
J. J. Grandville was the pseudonym of French caricaturist and illustrator Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard. His early carreer consisted of regular contributions of highly satirical political caricatures for a [...] Continue Reading…
July 17th, 2009 | Posted in Public Domain, Vintage Book Illustration | 2 Comments
Frank Cheyne Papé was a British illustrator of the “Golden Age” of book illustration. Born in 1878, there appears to be very little information available to us about his life and [...] Continue Reading…
July 11th, 2009 | Posted in Public Domain, Vintage Book Illustration | 3 Comments