Children’s Books and Their Illustrators by Gleeson White is a pioneering survey of the art of illustrating books for the young, first issued as a special number of The Studio. White, an influential design critic of the 1890s, reviews the leading illustrators of his day and their forebears, discussing the relation of picture to text and the rise of high-quality color printing.
Generously illustrated, the book is both a critical appreciation and a valuable record of the golden age of children’s book illustration in Britain and America. It remains a standard reference for the history of the field. This free EPUB download is cleanly formatted for any e-reader.