The Wonder Book For Children by arious authors and artists, Odhams Press Limited, London, early 1900’sBookplate of Mary Duchess of Bedford, in the collection of Daniel Fearing. Designed by W.P. Barret in 1899William Heath Robinson’s The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe19TH C ANTIQUE CHATTER BOX 1881 ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S PICT BOOK ESTES AND LAURIAT FRONTISPIECEThe Runaway Match, steel engraving, published in the November 1843 issue of Godey’s Lady’s BookFairy Gold A Book Of Chosen FairytalesDream boats and other stories 1920 by Dugald Stewart WalkerThe Schoolgirls’ Own Annual 1930 frontispieceUncle Wiggily Books this book belongs to frontispieceBOBBIE HAD A NICKEL by FRIEDA FRIEDMAN 1946 A Bobby Book frontispieceUncle Mac’s Children’s Hour Story Book Ed. Derek McCulloch, Various authors and artists London 1947Artuš Scheiner (1863-1938), Czech Fairytales 1926Skin Diseases and Blood Impurities. Unknown artist. Armanino Establishment, Genoa, Italy, 1899The Puffin Book Of Nursery Rhymes, Iona and Peter Opie, Ill. Pauline Baynes (Penguin Books Ltd, 1963)The Puffin Book Of Nursery Rhymes, Iona and Peter Opie, Ill. Pauline Baynes (Penguin Books Ltd, 1963) frontispiecefrom Austrian artist Heinrich Lefler (1863-1919)Peter Cross, Trouble for TrumpetsWalter Crane 1845 – 1915 London Town frontispieceGreat Grandmother Goose by Helen Cooper, illustrated by Krystyna Turska, Hamish Hamilton, London 1978 cover Margaret Rice Oxley (1888-1968) ‘When You Do Dance I Wish You A Wave O’ the Sea’ Harper’s Bazar – Easter edition (New York City, late 19th-century). The symmetrical borders of children’s books are often reminiscent of Art Nouveau.A 1901 advertisement for Parfumerie Violet by Louis Théophile HingreJohn Lewis Childs Floral Park Queens N.Y. flower catalog, 1890VAN BIBI EN DOT (1929) Sijtje AafjesSlovenly Peter, or, Cheerful stories and funny pictures for good little folks illustrated by Hoffman Heinrich. A classic example of the cautionary tale.Song of the Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats. Illustration by Trina Schart Hyman (1939-2004). Originally in Cricket magazine, September 1974The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures 1980Willy Pogany To plow a bed for the TiszaGreat Grandmother Goose by Helen Cooper, illustrated by Krystyna Turska, Hamish Hamilton, London 1978Great Grandmother Goose by Helen Cooper, illustrated by Krystyna Turska, Hamish Hamilton, London 1978Dick Kelsey and Bill Justice, illustrators of Walt Disney’s Grandpa Bunny, Little Golden Book No. D21, 1951Good Housekeeping’s Cookery Book Illustrations By Fred Reeves and Douglas Woodall, Ebury Press London 1948 borderGood Housekeeping’s Cookery Book Illustrations By Fred Reeves and Douglas Woodall, Ebury Press London 1948 borderArt nouveau dinner menu from the Red Star Line’s S.S. Zeeland on March 18th, 1906 art nouveauThe Enchanted Island of Yew (1903) written by L Frank Baum illustrated by Fanny Young CoryMOEBIUS ~ Tusk – movie poster art – 1980
Contemporary children’s illustration also makes use of illustrated borders, of course. Oftentimes this lends a Golden Age feel to the work.
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