Literary genres have particular features and functions that provide readers with certain expectations. Most of the books I read fall outside easy categorisation, but I try to include them in case you have particular interest in one area or another. Most of the books here are about fairy tales and myths, fantasy, classic literature, mystery and children’s books.
Hi all Today’s post is a companion to last week’s one on the Junior Deluxe Editions. The Best in Children’s Books series was also released by Doubleday, and they share enough design features with the JDE series that many casual readers conflate the two. But this series is quite different, and in fact Read more…
The latest page in my list of illustrated bibliographies is finally up – a complete list of all the books in the Junior Deluxe Editions series. Many people will be familiar with these brightly coloured and cheerfully illustrated children’s books, as they were the book club for children throughout the 1950s. Most of the books Read more…
A complete annotated illustrated bibliography of the work of master illustrator Errol Le Cain
A review of the Folio Society’s limited edition leatherbound series of six cherished tales, each of which is illustrated by a contemporary artist.
A comparison between the loveliest editions of East of the Sun, West of the Moon with Kay Nielsen’s incomparable illustrations: Folio Society, Taschen and Call Editions.
https://youtu.be/zVOjHki6T80Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Rockport’s Reimagined Classics Series | Beautiful Books (https://youtu.be/zVOjHki6T80) Classics Reimagined Series by Rockport (Quarto) Rockport’s Classics Reimagined is a library of stunning collector’s editions of unabridged classic novels illustrated by contemporary artists from around the world. Each artist offers his or her own Read more…
A fun book haul with lots of folio society and barnes & noble leatherbound books to enjoy
Charles van Sandwyk is a Vancouver artist, whose drawings and watercolours are reminiscent of the Golden Age of illustrators. He has illustrated several books for the Folio Society, and is also the author of numerous hand-made and private press books. The video link above looks at a sample of his Read more…
