What is a collector’s guide or illustrated bibliography? Many of the articles on this site are about beautiful book series, collections and vintage delights. Collector’s guides and illustrated bibliographies include titles authors and illustrators, ISBNs and publishing data, links to where you might find the books, enlargeable pictures of the Read more…
A new page in my list of illustrated bibliographies has been added. The Frederick Muller’s World Fairy Tales Collections (also known as the ‘Folk and Fairy Tales’ series) were published between the late 1950s to the early 1970s. The books contain some lovely tales from countries all around the world, Read more…
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
I have started a new feature here, providing links to illustrated bibliographies of the most beautiful editions of classic fiction, science fiction & fantasy, and – of course – all of my favourite vintage illustrators. The links and illustrations in each of the books are provided in separate pages, so I Read more…
