Children's Back Covers: Great Book Jacket and Cover Design FROM THE PUBLISHER
Children's Book Covers is a chronological survey, from rare Georgian and Regency gems, through Victorian gift books, to the diversity of later styles. Covering predominantly English language publications from Britain and the United States, 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 Ransome, Jean de Brunhoff, Maurice Sendak, and Raymond Briggs.
With over 400 specially photographed jackets and covers featured in colour, including rare first editions, Children's Book Covers provides a guide to the history of children's book cover design, and is an inspirational sourcebook for designers, collectors, and lovers of children's literature.
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