Illustration of books -- Great Britain
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Walter Crane Collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1418
Scope and Contents:
The collection contains original sketches, drawings, autograph manuscripts, and autograph letters, signed, by the English illustrator Walter Crane. Prominent are the original drawings for two of Crane's illustrated books, Queen Summer, or The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose (London: Cassell & Co., 1891) and A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1899). Correspondents include Kineton Parkes...
Dates:
1876-1915
Frederic M. Halford papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1612
Scope and Contents:
Drafts of books by Halford on dry-fly fishing and creation of artificial flies, and a draft of an autobiography, 1886-1912; scrapbooks containing clippings of reviews of books by Halford, 1897-1911, and clippings of obituaries and other articles about Halford, 1914-1915; and papers of Ellen Horne Kemp, 1896-1907, consisting of proofs of illustrations for books by Halford and related notes. Most drafts by Halford are autograph manuscript or typescript, with revisions and printer’s...
Dates:
1886-1970, bulk 1886-1914
Catharine T. Patterson Collection of Walter Crane
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1386
Abstract:
The collection contains original sketches, drawings, proof sheets, autograph manuscripts, and autograph letters from and to the English illustrator Walter Crane.
Dates:
1867-1957
Lewis Walpole Library Portrait Prints Collection
Collection
Call Number: LWL MSS 35
Abstract:
A collection of prints, chiefly portraits, of British public figures who lived either prior to the eighteenth-century, during the century, or up to the death of the last Georgian monarchs in 1830. Foreign personalities are included if they were mentioned by either Walpole and his circle. Included are members of the royal family, peerage, nobility, politicians, clergymen, writers, philosophers, scientists, actors and actresses, architects, artists, printmakers, printers, criminals, etc. The...
Dates:
1635-1904, bulk 1780-1840