The Artist and the Book in France by W. J. Stracha

Pricing & History
The Artist and the Book in France by W. J. Strachan. London: Peter Owen, 1969. First Edition. Green cloth gilt hardcover. Very good dj with 1/4 tear. 368 pp, 8 color plates, 181 illustrations. Hunter green slipcase with small tear to top. The Art of The French Illustrated Book, 1700 to 1914 in Two Volumes by Gordon Ray. Ithaca, NY - The Pierpont Morgan Library and Cornell University Press, 1982. First Edition. Red gilt cloth, dj fine. 246 pp Vol. I, 247-558 Vol. II. 4 color plates Vol. I, 12 color plates Vol. II with over 600 bw illustrations. Small folio. The Illustrator in America 1880-1980, A Century of Illustration by Walt and Roger Reed. Signed by the authors. Madison Square Press, Inc., New York, 1984. 355 pp with 700 illustrations. dj. A complete pictorial and biographical record, decade by decade, of the prominent illustrators from 1880 - 1980. Previous owner embossing on title page