The Dictionary of 19th Century British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists

Antique Collectors' Club,, Woodbridge:, 1996. Second edition. quarto, 380pp. First published in 1978, this extensively revised edition contains the most recent information on the subject and includes 250 extra entries. This book specializes in listing minor artists and amateurs who played a large part in making the period memorable for the illustrated book. Included is a Dictionary section, 30 color plates, 320 B&W illustrations, bibliography, and appendices including monograms, schools of illustration and illustrators of well-known books: Beardsley, Max Beerbohm, Robert Anning Bell, Thomas Bewick, William Bewick, Sir Frank Brangwyn, H. K. Browne, Randolph Caldecott, Walter Crane, Joseph Crawhall, George Cruikshank, Edward Dalziel, Edward Detmold, Richard Doyle, Edmund Dulac, Edward Lear, Pogany, Charles Ricketts, William Heath Robinson, D. G. Rossetti, Rowlandson, E. H. Shepard, William Strang, Whistler, Jack Yeats, and many more. (I)