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Thomas Mackenzie (1887 – 1944) was born in Bradford, England. He was an artist producing illustrations for books and watercolours during the early 20th Century. His earliest commissioned works were for Ali Baba and Aladdin and illustrations for James Stephens’s “The Crock of Gold” , Arthur Ransome‘s “Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp in Rhyme”, Christine […]

Reginald L. Knowles (1879 – 1950) was a book designer and illustrator who worked with his brother, Horace Knowles, on a number of exquisite illustrated books in the first two decades of the twentieth century, including Legends from Fairy Land (1907), Norse Fairy Tales (1910) and Old World Love-Stories (1913). Presenting the illustrations from Legends from

Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825–1916) was an artist of the Victorian era whose work consisted mainly of watercolor illustrations in children’s books. These illustrations were strongly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, being highly detailed and haunting in content. Love and death were popular subject matter of Pre-Raphaelite art and something that can be seen in Eleanor Vere

It is a great pleasure for me to present the most popular “Teddy Bears” book of the early 19th century. The Roosevelt Bears aka the “Teddy Bears books” by Eaton Seymour. This book has certainly contribute to popularized the keyword “Teddy Bears” that we all came to know today. Presenting the illustrations by Seymour Eaton

Dugald Walker – Rainbow Gold 1922 – First Edition Dugald Stewart Walker (1883 — 1937) was an early twentieth century American illustrator. Walker’s first comprehensive suite of colour and monotone illustrations appeared in Stories for Pictures (1912) and in the Foreword for that title written by Mackay, Walker was described in the following terms: “Dugald