Early Victorian Illustrated Books, Britain, France And Germany 1820-1860

by Buchanan-Brown, John

• ISBN13: 9781584561699
• ISBN10: 1584561696
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-31
• Publisher: Oak Knoll Pr

Summary

First edition. Due in January 2006. Writing over fifty years ago, the bibliographer Percy Muir noted that the 'immediate post-Bewick period' had been 'unduly neglected,' and this is still true today. In this major new study, John Buchanan-Brown remedies this neglect and demonstrates the importance of the period from 1820 to 1860 in the history of the illustrated book. These years saw the establishment of the technique of end-grain wood-engraving as the dominant mediuum of graphic reproduction. Its great advantage was that, as a relief process, it could reproduce both the image and the text simultaneously, and this allowed the publishing industry to feed what had become an insatiable appetite for illustrated books and journals. Although end-grain engraving was an English phenomenon, it was the French who first applied the process to book design. In turn, German illustrators were to influence the style of British illustrators. Thus wood-engraving naturally plays a leading role in this study, but it does not overshadow the other means of graphic reproduction employed during this period: lithography, chromolithography, and steel-engraving and etching. The study illustrates the work of French and German artists and their influence upon their British counterparts. The pioneering study also includes appendices on aspects of wood- and steel-engraving in England, notes on French and German illustrators and a glossary of technical terms. It is illustrated by some 250 reproductions in black and white, and eight pages in color. Co-published with The British Library.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(2)
Acknowledgements	9	(1)
Prologue	10	(6)
The French Connection	16	(56)
The Revival of Wood-engraving	17	(10)
Steel, Copper and Stone	27	(6)
Books for the People	33	(23)
British Engravers and Publishers	56	(16)
German Influences	72	(64)
Techniques of Graphic Reproduction	72	(3)
Professional Illustrators	75	(9)
The Painters	84	(31)
German Influences upon British Book Design and Illustration	115	(21)
Some British Publishers and Artists	136	(84)
The Publishers	136	(27)
John Van Voorst	136	(5)
Thomas Longman and John Murray	141	(16)
Charles Tilt and David Bogue	157	(6)
The Artists	163	(57)
William Harvey and John Gilbert	163	(9)
Samuel Williams and Myles Birket Foster	172	(2)
George Cruikshank	174	(6)
Alfred Crowquill, William Makepeace Thackeray and John Leech	180	(6)
Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz) and Richard Doyle	186	(8)
The Landscape Painters	194	(4)
Henry Warren, National Painters and Members of the Etching Club	198	(8)
William Mulready and Daniel Maclise	206	(3)
The Germanists: Joseph Noel Paton, F.R. Pickersgill, John Tenniel, H.C. Selous and John Franklin	209	(11)
Achievement and Decline	220	(64)
Social Criticism	220	(15)
Children's Books and Artists	235	(9)
Romantic Book Design	244	(17)
Conservatism: Some Uses of Stone and Steel in France	261	(6)
The End of the Era	267	(17)
Epilogue	284	(2)
Appendices	286	(19)
I Wood-engraving in Britain	286	(6)
II English Steel-engravers and Das malerische und romantische Deutschland (1836-42)	292	(4)
III Longman's Sales of Illuminated Books	296	(1)
IV Notes on French and German Illustrators	297	(6)
V Glossary of Technical Terms	303	(2)
Select Bibliography	305	(3)
Title Index of Books Cited in the Text	308	(6)
General Index	314