Posts tagged books
Beautiful Books - The Folio Society - not only fantastic book covers, all editions are also illustrated!
Pictures below: “Pinocchio” by Grahame Baker-Smith, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Jonathan Burton, “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Anna + Elena = Balbusso (winners of a Gold Award from The American Society of Illustrators).
Thomas Allen’s photographs of book sculptures. He’s represented by Foley Gallery, the link might be broken someday but you will find him filed under “artists”. More via Google.
Ernst Kreidolf (1863 - 1956) was a Swiss illustrator of children’s books. Pictures above from his book Sommervögel (1908).
The illustrations of Ida Bohatta (*1900; †1992) have accompanied me during elementary school. Any time we did well we got stamps in our booklets. For 10 collected stamps we got a little illustrated card called “Fleisskärtchen”. I loved those cards. Pictured are her books on the four seasons, printed in 1941.
A german article on a (long passed) exhibition of Buchkunst für Kinder in Wien 1890–1938: Jugendschatz und Wunderscherlein | kultur-online
“Vom Biedermeier zur Moderne” Beispielhafte Bilderbücher für Kinder, Sammlung Hans Ulrich Beerenwinkel Mettingen, Katalog 78, Winter 2010 Pdf (114 pages, with numerous illustrations)
Irish stained glass artist and book illustrator Harry Clarke (1889 – 1931). Picture on top: Vignette from Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe from Grandma’s Graphics found through feuilleton (highly recommended!!). Bottom picture: Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, also from Grandma’s Graphics.
When can I move in?
Scherenschnitte by Walter Draesner “Ein Totentanz”. Erste Ausgabe, Nr. 45 (1922), now on eBay for 1.300,- Euro. Digital version of the book on ULB Düsseldorf , as video on YouTube.
Penguin book covers have again and again caught my eyes over many years and now I finally know, who is responsible for a large amount of them! Paul Buckley, executive creative director at penguin usa. Above: The Steinbeck Series, woodcuts by Andrew Davidson.
Shelf room by sweetington on Flickr.
(via interiordecline)
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris by Moonbot Studios. Nominated for the Best Animated Short Academy Award 2011. I have no idea when or if they’ll take the film down, here the official website. Watch it, it’s wonderful, but it’ll make you cry, at least me…
Joe McLaren cover art for White’s Books. Pictures found on Every Book Its Reader.
Also Penguins Classics: Cover art by Jillian Tamaki. Also found through lullafly studios. An article on cover art for “The Secret Garden” (1911) on Maria Celina’s blog.
Penguin Books Australia cover art by Daniela Jalengka Terrazzini. Found through lullafly studios.
A coincidence, or not…? Some time ago I was lucky enough to discover a 1942 edition of “The Story of Ferdinand” in a second-hand store. This was the first German version of the children’s book, published by Verlag Amstutz, Herdeg & Co, Zurich/Leipzig. The logo of the publisher stroke me as familiar…it reminds me immensely of the Anya Hindmarch logo!
Were they digging in the past, just like Bottega Veneta…?
