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Article: Dictionary of 20th century British book illustrators.
- Article from:
- Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
- Article date:
- September 22, 1996
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Alan Horne The Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Antique Collectors' Club, 1994. 456 pp., $60.50u.s. (cloth). ISBN 1-85149-108-2.
With Alan Horne's The Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators, the Antique Collectors' Club has published another of its sumptuous and beautifully designed `books on books.' Horne's Dictionary, with at least a thousand entries for book illustrators working in Britain between 1915 and 1985, black-and-white illustrations on every page, about 150 beautifully reproduced coloured plates, and some sixty pages of introductory essays, all printed on high quality paper and impeccably ...