Victorian Horizons — 1st Edition

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Victorian Horizons: The Reception of the Picture Books of Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, and Kate Greenaway, Anne Lundin — 1st Edition

Publication: Lanham, MD, & London, The Children's Literature Association and The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2001

Formatting: 8vo, pp. xii, 266, [2], plus [12] pp. of monochrome plates.

Condition Report: Near Fine. Bound in the publisher's original slate-blue cloth with black panels framed and lettered in gilt to the upper board and spine, alongside the gilt-stamped Children's Literature Association emblem at the foot of the spine. The binding remains square, tight, and notably crisp, exhibiting only the most negligible trace of shelf-wear to the extremities and a faint, superficial surface rub to the lower board. All gilt blocking and titling remain bright and wholly unoxidised. Internally, the text block is exceptionally clean, fresh, and bright on permanent alkaline paper, free from foxing, spotting, or previous ownership inscriptions, with crisp hinges and only a tiny, inconspicuous black remainder or inspection dot to the top edge of the page block. Issued without a dust jacket.

Catalogue Note: First edition, first impression of this authoritative bibliographical and critical study, co-published by the Children's Literature Association as part of its Centennial Studies series.

Issued as a durable, cloth-bound academic monograph without a dust jacket, the volume is illustrated with twelve pages of monochrome plates reproducing characteristic artwork and period designs by the "triumvirate" of Victorian picture-book artists.

Because the edition was printed in a modest academic press run primarily absorbed by university and institutional research libraries, clean, unmarked copies free of institutional library stamps or pocket markings are increasingly scarce on the open retail market.

Expanding upon her landmark research in The Library Quarterly, Professor Anne Lundin applies reader-response and reception theory to the "Golden Age" of Victorian children's book illustration. Focusing on the celebrated trio of Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, and Kate Greenaway, all brought to prominence by the pioneering colour printer Edmund Evans—Lundin examines how late nineteenth-century periodicals, critics, librarians, and booksellers shaped the cultural status of the picture book. Tracing their critical fortunes from the 1870s through the twentieth century, Victorian Horizons demonstrates how juvenile toy books were elevated into collectible works of domestic art, offering an essential resource for bibliographers, art historians, and collectors of Victorian illustrated books.

Book Condition: Near Fine

Book Authors: Anne Lundin

Book Publisher: The Children's Literature Association and The Scarecrow Press, Inc.

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Non-Fiction

Genre: Criticism & Essays

Book edition: First Edition

Signed: No

Book Pages: 278

Book Publication Year: 2001

Book Publication Date: November 1, 2001

Book Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, Kate Greenaway

Book Series: Children's Literature Association Centennial Studies

Country/region of manufacture: Lanham, Maryland, United States of America

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