Art Genre
Books in the Art genre:
The Children’s Frieze-Book: To-Put-Together for Home Decoration (1918)
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Tales Told In Holland (1926)
A collection of stories, poems and pictures from Holland.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Fun and Fantasy (1927)
A collection of illustrations from Punch.Verses by E. V. Knox.
Author(s):
E. V. Knox
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Animals of the Bible a Picture Book (1937)
Selections from the Bible with illustrations of the animals described.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Helen Dean Fish
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Christmas: An American Annual of Christmas Literature and Art Volume Seven (1937)
Pictures and stories centered around Christmas. Includes ‘How Christmas Came to Blueberry Corners’ by Lois Lenski.
Author(s):
Selma Lagerlöf
Lois Lenski
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Et al
Christmas: An American Annual of Christmas Literature and Art Volume Nine (1939)
A collection of Christmas art, stories, songs and poems. Includes The Pink China Bonbon Dish by Lois Lenski.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Et al
The House of a Hundred Windows (1945)
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Robert de Veyrac
Et al
Billy’s Picture (1948)
All the animals want to help Billy bunny draw his picture.
Read online at Internet Archive.
Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts: 1898 Jubilee 1948 (1948)
Author(s):
Leonard Daniels
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
500 Years of Art in Illustration (1949)
Howard Simon explores methods, techniques, and examples of the great illustrators from the dawn of printing to the twentieth century.
Author(s):
Howard Simon
Illustrator(s):
Wanda Gág
Sculpture Principles and Practice (1949)
Practical instruction for the budding sculptor.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Albert’s Zoo a Stencil Book (1951)
Author(s):
Jane Werner
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Masterpieces of Victorian Photography 1840-1900 (1951)
Catalog of an exhibition of photographs. Cover by Ardizzone.
Author(s):
Philip James
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
A Handbook of Type and Illustration (1956)
A technical book including an article by Ardizzone.
Author(s):
John Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Et al
A Stickful of Nonpareil (1956)
A keepsake from Cambridge University Press, intended to give an idea of turn-of-the-twentieth-century printing.
Author(s):
George Scurfield
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Drawn from Memory (1957)
Author(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The First Book of Drawing (1958)
A primer for the budding artist on drawing.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Lois Lenski: Friend of Children (1958)
A brief review of the work of Lois Lenski put out by her publishers.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Best in Children’s Books Volume 24 (1959)
The Book of the Dance (1959)
A history of dance.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Agnes de Mille
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
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