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Arthur Rackham: Fairies, Elves
and the Enchantment of Childhood Dreams
From early childhood, Arthur Rackham showed a great talent for drawing and caricature. His father was a chief clerk in an era when official documents were drawn by hand. Young Arthur combined the strong sense of line and proportion inherited from his father and combined it with his prodigious imagination to become the leading illustrator of his—or perhaps any—time. Also, a selected checklist of books wholly illustrated by Arthur Rackham, with special emphasis on his glorious limited editions.
Glorious Patriotism: The Britain in Pictures Series
In 1940, under the threat of cultural annihilation by the Nazis, the British publishing house of Collins conceived and produced a series of small, affordable, finely illustrated color-plate books that extolled the virtues of all things British. With a list of the 139 entries in the series, together with the dates of their first printings.
Books into Film
The Prisoner of Zenda