CONTEMPORARY ILLUSTRATORS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Boston: The Bookshop for Boys and Girls / Women's Educational and Industrial Union, 1930. Near fine in very good dust jacket.. First edition of this reference guide to illustrators of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century from Aldin to Wyeth, with essays including Lynd Ward's "Contemporary Book Illustration," Esther Averill's "Avant-Gardes and Traditions in France," and Jacqueline Overton's "The Fairies Come Into Their Own." 11'' x 8''. Original sienna cloth stamped in pictorial gilt. In original tan dust jacket illustrated by Lynd Ward. Frontispiece and decorations by Ward. Black and white illustrations throughout, with two color plates by N.C. Wyeth and C. Lovat Fraser respectively. 135, [1] pages. Light edgewear to boards. Mild soil and shallow chipping to jacket, with small closed tears to edges. (Inventory #: 49618)