1901 The Art of Illustration

Description

Colour Plates, Early Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

Third 'Revised' Edition, very scarce. 

With a publisher's notice to front pastedown which reads, 'John Grant, Publisher 31 George IV. Bridge, Edinburgh, will be much obliged by a copy being sent to him of the Paper containing a notice of the accompanying book. The published price is __________'

Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and ninety-eight black-and-white plates and in-text illustrations by a range of artists including J. S. Eland (1872-1932). 

This is an insightful work on the 'art of illustration', particularly through the use of paper for book illustrations. The object of the book is 'to explain the modern systems of Book and Newspaper Illustration, and especially the methods of drawing for what is commonly called 'process,' on which so many artists are now engaged'. 

Contents include 'Elementary Illustration', 'Artistic Illustrations', 'The Processes', 'Wood Engraving', 'The Decorative Page', 'Author, Illustrator & Publisher', and 'Colour Printing Applied to Illustration'. 

Written by Henry Blackburn (1830-1897), who was the editor of 'Academy Notes' and a Cantor Lecturer on Illustration.

Collated, complete.