Vintage Children's Books

I have quite a large collection of vintage children's books the artwork in them is fantastic and quite difficult to find. I mainly collect books from the Golden Era 1900-1930.

I will start with Hilda Cowham because she is one of my favourite vintage artists.

Hild Cowham's Blacklegs and Others pub Kegan Paul,

Trench, Trubner & Co. Limited 1911

I love this book, expensive but I was so excited when I got it. I scanned all the B&W illustrations in and made reference sheets out of them. The book up to page 39 is text with  beautiful B&W illustrations the rest of the book is full page colour and grey scale Illustrations all on high grade glossy paper.

76 pages Full page colour illustrations Full page B&W illustrations and B&W illustrations amongst text.

Curly Heads And Long Legs Illustrated By Hilda Cowham

Published by Raphael & Tuck & Sons, Ltd. An expensive book now but very good not my favourite but will not disappoint i tend to prefer the b&w illustrations more than the colour in his book 140 pages 12 colour  plates and tons of B&W illustrations within the text.

The Adventures of Willy And Nilly By Phyllis Morris Illustrated By Hilda Cowham

published by John Lane Company

134 pages 8 colour plates 7 b&W plates tons or B&W in text illustrations loads of great pictures fairy circus theme.

 

Little Folks Mar The Magazine for Boys and Girls. 1932 To Aug. 1932 Published by Cassell and Company, Limited. I became quite obsessed with collecting Little folks they are packed full of really great art, most have six to twelve colour plates by the best artists of the day. This one is not bad but the earier ones are better.

By Harry Rountree, so brilliant.

Ernest Aris, I also love.

Little Folks Nov The Magazine for Boys and Girls. 1919 To April. 1920 Published by Cassell and Company, Limited. I became quite obsessed with collecting Little folks they are packed full of really great art, most have six to twelve colour plates by the best artists of the day. This one is pretty great.

Helen Jacobs, she did wonderful fairy art.

Another Helen Jacobs.

Little Folks The Magazine for Boys and Girls. Mar. Volume 90 1919. Published by Cassell and Company, Limited. I became quite obsessed with collecting Little folks they are packed full of really great art, most have six to twelve colour plates by the best artists of the day. This one is pretty great too.

More Rountree genius.

A L Bowley one of my faves for super cute pixies.

Little Folks Nov The Magazine for Boys and Girls. Vol 87 1918 Published by Cassell and Company, Limited. I became quite obsessed with collecting Little folks they are packed full of really great art, most have six to twelve colour plates by the best artists of the day. This is pretty good but I have shown best pics in it below (in my opinion.) Cute In the power of the goblins story.

Florence Mary Anderson

Harry Rountree

Rosa C Petherick

Little Folks Nov The Magazine for Boys and Girls. Vol 88 1918 Published by Cassell and Company, Limited. I became quite obsessed with collecting Little folks they are packed full of really great art, most have six to twelve colour plates by the best artists of the day. This is pretty good Most of the plates are by Ernest Aris in this one.

Mary Florence Anderson, I just love it!

Ernest Aris. A very clever man!

 

 

Amongst my favourite artists to collect are...

Arthur Rackham

Ernest Aris

Harry Rountree

Mabel Lucie Attwell

A L Bowley

Florence Anderson

Helen Jacobs

Ida Outhwaite

There are more, bear with me it will take a while.

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