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Article: Buchanan-Brown, John. Early Victorian Illustrated Books: Britain, France and Germany, 1820-1860.(Book review)
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- Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
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- March 22, 2007
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Buchanan-Brown, John. Early Victorian Illustrated Books: Britain, France and Germany, 1820-1860. New Castle, Del., and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2005. 320 pp.; US $98.00. ISBN 1584561696.
The publication of this book is long overdue, since there has been no satisfactory and broad geographical study of book illustration in the early-Victorian period, from 1837 to the Great Exhibition of 1851. John Buchanan-Brown has written an ambitious book, offering readers not only an introductory history of the illustrated book from 1820 to 1860, but also a proficient study of how illustrators, representing the three major languages of northern Europe, ...