Illustrators of Children's Books, 1967-1976

Horn Book, Boston, first edition, 1978. Cloth, 4to,. xiv, 290 pnumerous ills (some in colour),. The fourth volume in our series, Illustrators of Children's Books, deals with the years 1967 through 1976 - a period in which hundreds of new artists entered the field of children's book illustration; in which artists coped with new demands on their techniques and ingenuity; in which international book fairs and exhibits and international co-publishing burgeoned; in which the differing concepts of what constitutes a picture book became more marked by European and American standards; and in which publishing companies treated children's books as a growth industry. These philosophical and technical complexities in the illustration of children's books, the artists, and their art, are discussed in articles by Walter Lorraine, Brian Alderson, Momoko Ishii and Teiji Seta, and Treld Pelkey Bicknell. Biographical entries for approximately 500 artists and selected bibliographies of their work are included, as is a cumulative index to all four volumes." Contents: Part I A Decade of Illustration in Children's Books (Book Illustration - The State of the Art by Walter Lorraine; A View from the Island - European Picture Books 1967-1976 by Brian Alderson; Where the Old Meets the New - The Japanese Picture Book by Teiji Seta and Momoko Ishii; In the Beginning Was the Word - The Illustrated Book 1967-1976 by Treld Pelkey Bicknell); Part II. Biographies of Illustrators Active 1967-1976 Compiled by Grace Allen Hogarth; Part III. Bibliographies (Bibliography of Illustrators Active 1967-1976, and Bibliography of Authors by Harriet Quimby) Part IV. Appendix (Bibliographical notes for 3 essays in Part I; List of Artists Represented by Illustrations; Indexes). Very Good in a dustwrapper which is slightly edgeworn with one short edgetear and has a sunned spine.