WORDS & PICTURES: Writers,artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition.

UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE.N o owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,cream background with b/w Tenniel 'Alice' illustration to front,Wm. Blake's b/w thumbnail-size illustration to rear panel of dw/dj,with bright, crisp,gilt lettering to front,gilt+black lettered spine which has a small (approx. 1.5cm) creased abrasion to rear-facing spine's edge - very minimally affecting concomitant area of board beneath,rear panel with black lettered critics' reviews and Wm. Blake illustration; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks, tears or splits present.Top+fore- edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread,apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain charcoal cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine,a b/w striped headband and immaculate slate grey endpapers.UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-161pp [paginated] includes b/w illustrated foreword,3 sections covering: Milton, Bunyan and Artists,Hogarth & Fielding and Wordsworth & Bewick - each with contemporary b/w author+illustrator b/w portrait reproductions separator pages; profuse contemporary part+full page b/w illustration reproductions throughout,12pp contemporary colour illustration reproductions in 1 block, between pp54/5,Coda,brief further reading,acknowledgements, a List of illustrations,and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title, b/w vignetted title page,b/w vignetted (The Owl and the Pussycat) dedication,contents list/table,prose extract from 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and to the rear; b/w vignetted reverse of last page of index,plus 4pp blanks.
Charmingly and profusely illustrated little book uncovering some intriguing connections between British writers and artists of illustrated books by either.
It looks at how artists have responded to two great,contrasting works,'Paradise Lost' and 'Pilgrim's Progress; at Hogarth and Fielding,great innovators,sharing common aims; and at Wordsworth and Bewick,a poet and engraver,both working separately,but both imbued with the spirit of their age.A brief coda turns to a fourth relationship: writers and artists who collaborate from the start,like Dickens and Phiz,and Lewis Carroll and Tenniel.
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