By Alan Powers - Published by Mitchell Beazley - 2003Hardback with Dust Jacket - 144 pages - 285 mm x 245 mm
Around 300 Colour Photographs
Contains a chronological survey from rare Georgian & Regency gems through Victorian gift books to the diversity of later styles. Covering predominantly English language publications from Britain and the USA it combines insight into developments in printing and binding techniques, publishing and marketing with a wealth of detail and comment on authors and illustrators including Edward Lear, Randolph Caldecott, Beatrix Potter, Kenneth Grahame, Arthur Ronsome, Jean de Brunhoff, Maurice Sendak and Raymond Briggs.