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When Phantasie Takes Flight: The Art and Imagination of Arthur Rackham (online version of U-Florida exhibit catalog; ca. 2014), ed. by Suzan A. Alteri and John Ingram (illustrated HTML at Florida)
The Art of Illustration (second edition; London: W. H. Allen and Co., 1896), by Henry Blackburn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New (third edition; London and New York: G. Bell and Sons, 1905), by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
How to Draw: A Practical Book of Instruction in the Art of Illustration (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1904), by Leon Barritt (page images at HathiTrust)
Kulturgeschichtliches bilderbuch aus drei jahrhunderten (G. Hirth, 1881), by Georg Hirth (page images at HathiTrust)
The life and works of Giorgio Giulio Clovio, miniaturist, with notices of his contemporaries, and of the art of book decoration in the sixteenth century. (B. Quaritch, 1891), by John W. Bradley (page images at HathiTrust)
Annual of the Society of Illustrators. (C. Scribner's sons, 1911), by N.Y.) Society of Illustrators (New York and Royal Cortissoz (page images at HathiTrust)
A window in Thrums (Dodd, Mead, 1896), by J. M. Barrie and Clifton Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
A book of samples of papers manufactured to print properly all kinds of illustrations,. (New York, 1922), by inc Champion Papers (page images at HathiTrust)
Das alte buch (R.C. Schmidt & Co., 1921), by Karl Schottenloher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The kingdom of books (Little, Brown & company, 1927), by William Dana Orcutt (page images at HathiTrust)
Die entwicklung der modernen buchkunst in Deutschland (H. Seemann nachfolger, 1901), by Otto Grautoff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
From cover to cover (Print shop, Vocational department, High school, 1929), by Wilbur Fisk Cleaver (page images at HathiTrust)
Better paper--better printing. (S. D. Warren company, 1920), by S.D. Warren Company (page images at HathiTrust)
Better paper--better printing (S. D. Warren company, 1920), by S.D. Warren Company (page images at HathiTrust)
L'art dans la décoration extérieure des livres, en France et a l'étranger; les couvertures illustrées, les cartonnages d'éditeurs; la reliure d'art. (Société française d'éditions d'art, L. H. May, 1898), by Octave Uzanne (page images at HathiTrust)
Modern book production. (The Studio, Ltd., 1928), by Studio (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
L'arte del libro e della revista (Edizione fatta a cura di C. Ratta, direttore della Scuola di arte tipografica del comune di Bologna, 1927), by Cesare Ratta (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The illustration of books; a manual for the use of students, notes for a course of lectures at the Slade School, University College (T. F. Unwin, 1896), by Joseph Pennell (page images at HathiTrust)
Italian book illustrations : chiefly of the fifteenth century. (Seeley, 1894), by Alfred W. Pollard (page images at HathiTrust)
Children's books of long ago, a garland of pages and pictures (The Dryden press, 1942), by Homer A. Watt and Karl Julius Holzknecht (page images at HathiTrust)
Journalism versus art (A. A. Knopf, 1916), by Max Eastman (page images at HathiTrust)
The adventures of an illustrator. (Little, Brown and company, 1925), by Joseph Pennell (page images at HathiTrust)
Pen drawing and pen draughtsmen, their work and their methods: a study of the art to-day with technical suggestions (Macmillan & Co., 1889), by Joseph Pennell (page images at HathiTrust)
Pen drawing and pen draughtsmen : their work and their methods : a study of the art today with technical suggestions (Macmillan, 1920), by Joseph Pennell (page images at HathiTrust)
How to illustrate for money. (Harper & brothers, 1836), by Sid Hydeman (page images at HathiTrust)
The principles of line illustration; with emphasis on the requirements of biological and other scientific workers. (Harvard University Press, 1953), by Lancelot Norman Staniland (page images at HathiTrust)
Children's books and their illustrators. (J. Lane, 1897), by Gleeson White (page images at HathiTrust)
English illustration, the sixties: 1855-70 (Archibald Constable and Co., 1897), by Gleeson White, Janice Dohm, and Ford Madox Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
Pen, pencil and chalk : a series of drawings by contemporary European artists (The Studio Ltd., 1911), by Ned I. Chalat, Joann Chalat, Arthur Rackham, Carl G. Laurin, A. S. Levetus, Hans Wolfgang Singer, E. A. Taylor, Ph. Zilcken, Malcolm C. Salaman, and Charles Holme (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The art of illustration. (J. Grant, 1901), by Henry Blackburn and J. S. Eland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The pictorial press, its origin and progress. (Hurst and Blackett, 1885), by Mason Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
Das goldene Zeitalter der französischen Illustration : mit 34 Textillustrationen und 64 Tafeln. (Benjamin Harz, 1924), by Lothar Brieger and Karl Voll (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Aquatint engraving; a chapter in the history of book illustration (Duckworth & Co., 1909), by S. T. Prideaux (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Modern methods of illustrating books. (E. Stock, 1887), by Henry Trueman Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
Modern methods of illustrating books (Elliot Stock, 1886), by Henry Trueman Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
Modern methods of illustrating books. (A. C. Armstrong & son, 1887), by Henry Trueman Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
Das Alte Buch und seine Ausstattung vom XV. bis zum XIX. Jahrhundert : Buchdruck, Buchschmuck und Einbände (Gerlach & Wiedling, 1916), by Martin Gerlach (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Of the decorative illustration of books old and new (G. Bell and sons, ltd., 1911), by Walter Crane (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Attraverso gli albi e le cartelle [sensazioni d'art]. 2a serie. Con 385 illustrazioni e 27 inquadrature (Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche, 1907), by Vittorio Pica (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
English caricaturists and graphic humourists of the nineteenth century. How they illustrated and interpreted their times... (S. Sonnenschein, & co., 1893), by Graham Everitt (page images at HathiTrust)
Etching, engraving and the other methods of printing pictures (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., ltd., 1897), by Hans Wolfgang Singer and William Strang (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Japanese illustration; a history of the arts of wood-cutting and colour printing in Japan (G. Bell and sons, 1897), by Edward Fairbrother Strange (page images at HathiTrust)
Japanese illustration ; a history of the arts of wood-cutting and colour printing in Japan (G. Bell and Sons, 1904), by Edward Fairbrother Strange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Rudolph Ackermann, his life; the populariser of aquatint engraving, pioneer of art-book illustration. ([A. Ackermann & son, 1800), by Arthur Ackermann & Son (page images at HathiTrust)
The relationship between type and illustration in books and book jackets (G. McKibbin, 1948), by A. P. Tedesco (page images at HathiTrust)
Vision of a collector : the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress (Library of Congress, 1991), by Tony Rosati, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress), W. Thomas Taylor (Firm), and Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division (page images at HathiTrust)
Sixteen full-page plates to illustrate an Encyclopaedia of the science of comparative religions (Printed by Scott and Ferguson, 1890), by James George Roche Forlong (page images at HathiTrust)
The graphic arts; modern men and modern methods (Published for the Art Institute of Chicago by the University of Chicago Press, 1921), by Joseph Pennell (page images at HathiTrust)
Of the decorative illustration of books old and new. (George Bell & Sons, 1905), by Walter Crane (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die romantische illustration, die volkstümlichen zeichner der deutschen romantik. (Einhorn, 1920), by Oskar Lang (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A practical hand-book of drawing for modern methods of reprodvction (Chapman & Hall, 1915), by Charles George Harper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Modern illustration (G. Bell, 1895), by Joseph Pennell (page images at HathiTrust)
Modern methods of illustrating books. (E. Stock, 1890), by Henry Trueman Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
An historical and practical guide to art illustration : in connection with books, periodicals, and general decoration : with numerous specimens of the various methods (Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1884), by James Shirley Hodson, East & Blades Blades, and Marston Sampson Low (page images at HathiTrust)
The essentials of illustration, a practical guide to the reproduction of drawings & photographs for the use of scientists & others (W. Wesley & Son, 1915), by Thomas George Hill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A practical hand-book of drawing for modern methods of reproduction (London : Chapman & Hall, Ld., 1894., 1894), by Charles G. Harper and Chapman and Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
Engraving for illustration (Scott, Greenwood & Sons;, 1903), by Joseph Kirkbride (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die Lübecker Buchillustration des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts ... (J.H.E. Heitz, 1904), by Adolph i. e. Heinrich Ernst Adolph Tronnier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The art of pen drawing; a manual for students, illustrators, and commercial artists. (B.T. Batsford, 1927), by George Montague Ellwood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The pictorial press: its origin and progress. (Hurst and Blackett, 1885), by Mason Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
English illustration, 'the sixties' : 1855-70 (Constable, 1906), by Gleeson White (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Pen drawing and pen draughtsmen : their work and their methods : a study of the art to-day with technical suggestions (MacMillan, 1897), by Joseph Pennell (page images at HathiTrust)
Die neue Buchkunst : Studien im In- und Ausland (Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen, 1902), by Rudolf Kautzsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die graphischen künste der gegenwart; ein führer durch das buchgewerbe (F. Krais, 1895), by Theodor Goebel, Ludwig Volkmann, and Felix Krais (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Aus der Märchen Schublade (Düssel Verlag, 1913), by Ernst Aufseeser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Kölner Bibel von 1479. (J.H.E. Heitz, 1896), by Rudolf Kautzsch (page images at HathiTrust)
Pen drawing and pen draughtsmen, their work and their methods; a study of the art to-day, with technical suggestions (Macmillan and company, 1894), by Joseph Pennell (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Herstellung von Büchern, Illustrationen, Akzidenzen u. s. w. (W. Knapp, 1923), by Arthur Wilhelm Unger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Shakespeare in art. (AMS Press, 1973), by Sadakichi Hartmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Le livre. (G. Crès & Cie, 1924), by Marius Audin, Henri Focillon, and Léon Pichon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
English literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, being a selection of first and early editions of the works of esteemed authors and book illustrators and books on sports and pastimes (Maggs Bros., 1927), by Maggs Bros. (page images at HathiTrust)
Das Alte Buch und seine Ausstattung vom XV. bis zum XIX. Jahrhundert: Buchdruck, Buchschmuck und Einbände. (Gerlach & Wiedling, 1915), by Martin Gerlach (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Modern methods of illustrating books. (Elliot Stock, 1890), by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Henry Trueman Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
Twentieth century cover designs (V. H. and E. L. Briggs, 1902), by Briggs Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
Illustrating children's books: history, technique, production. (Watson-Guptill Publications, 1963), by Henry C. Pitz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The art of illustration (W. H. Allen, 1896), by Henry Blackburn (page images at HathiTrust)
Practical illustration; a guide for artists (Harper & brothers, 1920), by John D. Whiting (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Der Götter Verwandlungen : mit Radierungen und Bildern neuerer Meister (H. Schmidt, 1920), by 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Ovid and Ernst Wilhelm Bredt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Von der dekorativen Illustration des Buches in alter und neuer Zeit; Vortraege und Aufsaetze (H. Seemann Nachfolger, 1901), by Walter Crane, Konrad Burger, and Ludwig Burger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
De Radierung im schönen Buche. ([s.n.], 1921), by Hermann Struck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The life and works of Giorgio Giulio Clovio, miniaturist, with notices of his contemporaries, and of the art of book decoration in the sixteenth century. With 18 plates. (B. Quaritch, 1891), by John William Bradley (page images at HathiTrust)
Plume, crayon, fusain; dessins d'artistes contemporains d'Europe. ("Du Studio", 1911), by Charles Holme, Carl G. Laurin, A. S. Levetus, Hans Wolfgang Singer, E. A. Taylor, Ph. Zilcken, and Malcolm C. Salaman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Drawing for printers. A practical treatise on the art of designing and illustrating in connection with typography. Containing complete instruction, fully illustrated, concerning the art of drawing, for the beginner as well as the more advanced student. (Inland Printer Co., 1899), by Ernest Knaufft (page images at HathiTrust)
Japanese illustration (G. Bell and sons, 1904), by Edward Fairbrother Strange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The art of illustration (Chapman and Hall, 1921), by Edmund J. Sullivan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Geschichte der deutschen illustration, vom ersten auftreten des formschnittes bis auf die gegenwart (F. Jäger, 1900), by Theodor Kutschmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Pen drawing and pen draughtsmen : their work and their methods : a study of the art today with technical suggestions (T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1921), by Joseph Pennell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Picture book of the graphic arts, 1500-1800 = Kulturgeschichtliches Bilderbuch aus drei Jahrhunderten (Knorr and Hirth, 1882), by Georg Hirth (page images at HathiTrust)
Life and character (Harper & brothers, 1899), by W. T. Smedley and A. V. S. Anthony (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Das alte buch. (Schmidt, 1919), by Karl Schottenloher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Les arts et les industries du papier en France (Libraries-imprimeries réunies, 1894), by Marius Vachon (page images at HathiTrust)
Graphische gesellschaft : Veröffentlichung. (Berling, 1906) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The art of illustration (C. Scribner's Sons, 1921), by Edmund J. Sullivan (page images at HathiTrust)
Art bits : a collection of proofs selected from odd issues and engravers' etchings, half tone and three-color work. (Chicago, 1906), by Inland Printer Co. (Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)
Edward Henry Corbould letters, ca. 1851-1882. (1851), by Edward Henry Corbould, Joseph Lionel Williams, and Charles John Kean (page images at HathiTrust)
Modern illustration (G. Bell, 1895), by Joseph Pennell (page images at HathiTrust)
The illustration of books; a manual for the use of students, notes for a course of lectures at the Slade School, University College (The Century co.; [etc., etc., 1896), by Joseph Pennell (page images at HathiTrust)
Notes on an informal talk on book illustrations, inside, and out, given before the Boston Art Students' Association, Feb. 14, 1894 (Boston Art Students' Association, 1894), by Sarah Whitman (page images at HathiTrust)
Of the extra illustration of books (Zaehnsdorf Cambridge Works, 1900), by William Loring Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
Coloured books for children (Imprynted by Bror. C.W.H. Wyman, 1887), by Charles Welsh and C. W. H. Wyman (page images at HathiTrust)
Kölner Bibel von 1479. (J.H.E. Heitz, 1896), by Rudolf Kautzsch (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Strassburger bücher-illustration im XV. und im anfange des XVI. jahrhunderts. (E.A. Seemann, 1888), by Paul Kristeller (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Baseler Buchillustration des XV. Jahrhunderts (J. H. E. Heitz, 1896), by Werner Weisbach (page images at HathiTrust)
The practical colorist; a pathfinder for the artist printer (The Owl press, 1900), by Frederick M. Sheldon and Owl Press (page images at HathiTrust)
Tales in verse. (The Burrows Brothers Company, 1895), by R. D. Blackmore, Will Bradley, John Wilson and Son, Burrows Brothers Company, University Press Pamphlet Collection (Houghton Library), and Mass.) University Press (Cambridge (page images at HathiTrust)
Iconographie des fables de La Fontaine, La Motte, Dorat, Florian : avec une étude sur l'iconographie antique (E. Flammarion, 1893), by Eugène Lévêque, L. Cerf, and D. Jouaust (page images at HathiTrust)
Modern illustration ... : student's edition with 171 illustrations (George Bell, and Sons, 1898), by Joseph Pennell (page images at HathiTrust)
Annual ... (New York., in the 20th century), by N.Y.) Society of Illustrators (New York and Royal Cortissoz (page images at HathiTrust)
Notes on book illustration, Vol.III., N.S.O.V. ([publisher not identified],c1898., 1898), by Charles Gerring (page images at HathiTrust)
Attraverso gli albi e le cartelle : sensazioni d'arte (Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche, 1904), by Vittorio Pica (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A handbook of illustration (G. Gennert, 1895), by A. Horsley Hinton (page images at HathiTrust)
Four hundred humorous illustrations (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.;, 1900), by George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)
Of the decorative illustration of books old and new (George Bell and Sons, York Street, Covent Garden, W. C. ; New York, 66 Fifth Avenue, 1901), by Walter Crane (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Study of illustrations in children's books, a second bulletin ... (Association for Arts in Childhood, 1939), by Association for Arts in Childhood and Ursula Bringhurst (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Printing number, October 13, 1927 : issued with the Times Literary Supplement, Thursday, Oct. 13, 1927. (The Times, 1927) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Cassell's Doré gallery. (Cassell, 1885), by Gustave Doré and Edmund Ollier (page images at HathiTrust)
Use of graphs in Air Force teaching materials (Air Research and Development Center, Human Resources Institute, 1953), by Lewis V. Peterson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Images enfantines. (Paris : Maison Quantin, Compagnie générale d'impression et d'édition, [between 1886 and 1887?], 1886), by A. Quantin (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
Rare & valuable collection of engraved British portraits. ([T. Dodd], 1809), by Thomas Dodd and James Granger (page images at HathiTrust)
Warren's olde style. (S. D. Warren Company, 1920), by S.D. Warren Company (page images at HathiTrust)
Les transformations du papier et du carton. (Edition de la revue "Papyrus", 1926) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Anatomic illustration. (The University of Chicago press, 1920), by Ludwig Choulant, Edward Clark Streeter, Fielding H. Garrison, and Mortimer Frank (page images at HathiTrust)
Fröhliche Romantik (Hugo Schmidt, 1917), by Moritz von Schwind and Ernst Wilhelm Bredt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Decorative lettering, cover designing, newspaper illustrating, caricaturing and cartooning, magazine and book illustrating, where and how to obtain a position. (International Textbook Co., 1916), by International Correspondence Schools (page images at HathiTrust)
Le livre belge à gravures; guide de l'amateur de livres illustrés imprimés en Belgique avant le XVIIIe siècle (G. van Oest, 1925), by M. Funck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A Practical Hand-book of Drawing for Modern Methods of Reproduction, by Charles G. Harper (Gutenberg ebook)
Drawing for Printers.: A practical treatise on the art of designing and illustrating in connection with typography. Containing complete instruction, fully illustrated, concerning the art of drawing, for the beginner as well as the more advanced student., by Ernest Knaufft (Gutenberg ebook)
The Illustration of Books: A Manual for the Use of Students, Notes for a Course of Lectures at the Slade School, University College, by Joseph Pennell (Gutenberg ebook)
The Printed Book: Its History, Illustration and Adornment: From the Days of Gutenberg to the Present Time, by Henri Bouchot, trans. by E. C. Bigmore (Gutenberg ebook)
A Handbook of Illustration, by A. Horsley Hinton (Gutenberg ebook)
The Preparation of Illustrations for Reports of the United States Geological Survey: With Brief Descriptions of Processes of Reproduction, by John L. Ridgway (Gutenberg ebook)
Engraving for Illustration: Historical and Practical Notes, by Joseph Kirkbride (Gutenberg ebook)
The Pictorial Press: Its Origin and Progress, by Mason Jackson (Gutenberg ebook)
The Essentials of Illustration: A Practical Guide to the Reproduction of Drawings & Photographs for the Use of Scientists & Others, by Thomas George Hill (Gutenberg ebook)
Children's Books and Their Illustrators, by Gleeson White (Gutenberg ebook)
When phantasie takes flight, by Suzan A. Alteri, John Ingram, Lourdes Santamaria-Wheeler, and George A. Smathers Libraries (host institution) (page images at Florida)

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