Contrary to the description here, this book was first published in 1980 and is very much a product of the 1970s in both artistic style and tone. Brightly colored but somewhat blurry illustrations, funnily dressed characters, emphases on nature and imagination. I actually found the idea of workers ha...
Glorious indeed! What I love most about this book isn't that you get forty two of the most well known Mother Goose poems, nor is it that they accompanied by the most brilliant jaw dropping golden age era illustrations. All of that is more than I could ever hope for, but what I really love is that ...
Cooper Edens - who selected and compiled the illustrations for this version of Beauty and the Beast - calls himself a 'connoisseur of the antique image'. What an apt term for those of us who appreciate and seek out vintage/golden age era illustrations! In this version there are approximately fifty...
I'm not sure what the idea behind this collection is... I guess to show a selection of nice illustrations, but since most of the ones chosen aren't particularly obscure, it doesn't seem too useful. I've seen much better thought-out collections, with more complete excepts. Many of these were so short...
Children of Wonder Volume 4: Helping the...
Phenomenal Alphabet - Cooper Edens
ART OF LONGING (Star & Elephant Book) - ...
Helping the Sun - Alexandra Day, Cooper ...
Hugh's Hues - Cooper Edens
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