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Green & Gold: what’s new in August?
August’s updates include collecting guides to several beautiful gilded vintage series and some children’s classics.
Decorative Bindings
The Cranford Series – Victorian Decorative Gilt Designs
A complete illustrated list of all the books in Macmillan’s vintage Cranford Series, and associated titles, distinctive for their decorative gilt covers on dark green cloth bindings.
Decorative Bindings
Dent Dutton Children’s Illustrated Classics
A guide to collecting the vintage Dent Dutton Children’s Illustrated Classics series – the ones with pretty patterned cloth covers
Decorative Bindings
Harrap’s Myths Series
George G. Harrap published a series of a dozen books called “The Myths Series” between 1907 and 1917. The covers are not uniform, but are all decorative and collectible. This illustrated article explores all the titles in the series.
Vintage Books
Andrew Lang’s Story Books
An overview of the first editions of Andrew Lang’s Story Books & Poetry collections (which complement his Rainbow Fairy Books series).
Fairy Tales & Folklore
The Stunning Purnell Myths & Legends Series
A series of five myth, legend and folklore collections from the 1960s written by Roger Lancelyn Green and stunningly illustrated by talented twin artists Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone.
Illustrated Bibliography
Alice in Wonderland – Illustrated Bibliography p3 (Vintage Editions)
An illustrated collection of beautiful vintage editions of Alice in Wonderland – Collector’s Guide to Alice in Wonderland, bibliography page 3.
Fairy Tales & Folklore
The Art of the Australian Fairy
A collection of literary magical fairy beings of the sort that typically feature prominently in pan-European fairy tales but here are living in the Australian bush from Ida Rentoul Outhwaite’s Fairyland to May Gibbs’ Snugglepot and Cuddlepie.
Golden Age Illustrators
Best In Children’s Books Series
Despite being sold through a book club, the Best In Children’s Books volumes are not in fact true book club editions, since many of the stories and illustrations appeared for the first (and sometimes only) time in this format. The artists who worked on the series were quite extraordinary, including such luminaries as Andy Warhol and Maurice Sendak. This is the complete list of titles.
Illustrated Bibliography
Collecting Janet & Anne Grahame Johnstone – Twin Illustrators
Collecting » Authors & Artists » Grahame Johnstone Twins Collecting Twin Illustrators Janet & Anne Grahame Johnstone Jump to: Introduction | Biography | Artwork | Complete list of Titles Introduction Welcome to my online shrine to twin illustrators Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone. As a collector of the Grahame Johnstone’s Read more…