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A new addition to our gallery. The Firebird and other Russian Fairy Tales illustrated by a Russian illustrator Boris Zvorykin. Little is known about this Russian illustrator. But his works is reminiscent of the great Russian illustrator Ivan Bilibin. This book is among a few modern illustrated book that I like enough to add to […]

Sidney Harold Meteyard  (1868 – 1947) was an English art teacher, painter and stained-glass designer. A member of the Birmingham Group, he worked in a late Pre-Raphaelite style heavily influenced by Edward Burne-Jones and the Arts and Crafts Movement. A friend of William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, Meteyard worked across a wide variety of media

Theodorus (Theo) van Hoytema (Den Haag 1863-1917) achieved fame during his lifetime as a book-illustrator, painter and draughtsman. He is considered to be the most important representative of lithographic work in the Netherlands and his prints are well represented in two Dutch public collections. I’m please to introduce Uilen-Geluk, one of the great pictures book

Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell (March 5, 1862 – January 15, 1924) was an American artist and author. A native of McDonough County, Illinois, Newell built a reputation in the 1880s and 1890s for his humorous drawings and poems, which appeared in Harper’s Weekly, Harper’s Bazaar, Scribner’s Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Judge, and other publications.

I stumbled upon this illustrated book while looking for some art books in a small used bookstore. From Mathilde Ritter, a German illustrator and unknown to me. It contains some delightful illustrations and I love to present it to you. In the Mouse’s House published by Laidlaw Brothers, 1933. A translation from a German story

Maxwell Ashby Armfield (1881 – 1972) was an English artist, illustrator and writer. Presenting the First edition “The Confessions of Saint Augustine” with of illustrations by Maxwell Armfield. Published by Chatto & Windus, London 1909. Art Gallery: Maxwell Armfield – The Confessions of Saint Augustine 1909

Henriette Willebeek LeMair (April 23, 1889 in Rotterdam – March 15, 1966) was a Dutch illustrator of children’s books. She first published illustrations in 1904, and a year later collaborated with her mother on a series of three books. As an illustrator, her most productive years were between 1911 and 1917. Her images appeared on