Combines essays, bibliographical descriptions, and 295 illustrations to chronicle a golden era in the art of the illustrated book. Artists range from Blake, Tur

Based on an exhibition at the Pierpont Morgan Library, this handsome book demonstrates taht far from being a 'minor art,' book illustration was a genre of great

The modern media world came into being in the nineteenth century, when machines were harnessed to produce texts and images in unprecedented numbers. In the visu

Children's publishing is a huge international industry and there is ever-growing interest from researchers and students in the genre as cultural object of study