Thomas Parker. Sailing Under Sealed Orders. Boston, Chicago, W. A. Wilde company [c1921]
The Art of Book Design: Sailing Under Sealed Orders
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Thomas Parker. Sailing Under Sealed Orders. Boston, Chicago, W. A. Wilde company [c1921]
Andrew Lang. The Olive Fairy Book. Illustrations by H.J. Ford. London, New York, Longmans, Green, 1907.
This week’s Andrew Lang fairy book is the second to last book of the series and it’s filled with whimsy and charm. There are dragons and serpents, oxen and camel, spiders and lots and lots of birds. I’ve included all the full-page drawings because each of them spoke to me in one way or another.
Rudyard Kipling & Daniel De Foe. Little Blue Book #145, Great Ghost Stories. Little Blue Books, Girard, Kansas, 1924.
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Edward A. Rand. All Aboard for Sunrise Lands. Chicago, Fairbanks and Pub. Co., 1884 [c1882]
Maria Edgeworth, Jane Taylor, Mrs. Barbould Edited by M.V, O’Shea. Waste Not, Want Not, and Other Stories. Boston, D.C. Heath & Co., 1904.
Mildred Kennedy. The Forest Beyond the Woodlands. New York, A. A. Knopf, 1921.
Mabell S.C. Smith. Ethel Morton’s Holidays. New York, The New York Book Company, 1915.
T.S. Arthur. The Prattler, Picture and Storybook for Boys and Girls. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1876.
Andrew Lang. The Crimson Fairy Book. Illustrations by H. J. Ford. London & New York, Longmans, Green and Co., 1903.
This week we’re looking at Andrew Lang’s Crimson coloured fairy book. I had a terrible time choosing the artwork to showcase in this post because all of it is wonderful. H.J. Ford’s full-page drawings are full of whimsy, and each one has some element or another that makes it worthy of a look, so I’ve included all of them for you to see. Enjoy. [Read more…]
Max Pemberton. The Show Girl. Philadelphia, The J. C. Winston company, 1909.
Amy E. Blanchard. Lucky Penny of Thistle Troop. Boston, Chicago, W. A. Wilde company, 1920.
Dinah Maria Mulock. Little Sunshine’s Holiday. New York, T.Y. Crowell & co., 1901.
Everything for the Garde, Peter Henderson and Co., 1904 catalogue (front cover)
Everything for the Garde, Peter Henderson and Co., 1904 catalogue (back cover)
This is a beautiful catalogue with many delightful full-page coloured illustrations. You can see the whole thing at the link below.
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