Vintage book illustration

Here's another great picture from the Bride's book I found while out thrifting. The imagery on this one is just fantastic.

I posted a black and white vintage clip art illustration of a beautiful Hydrangea a few days ago. In response to my post, I received a request to share the information about hydrangeas from the book. That information is covered on these two pages. In addition to the hydrangea, there is gardening information on a few...Read More

A blog about (vintage) books and illustration, about art and design.

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The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies Cicely Mary Barker ~ Blackie and Son, 1926 I received this guest post from Ireland a while back,...

Translation by C.M. Yonge, of Les clients d'un vieux poirier

This illustration comes from a little book called 'Where have you been?' by Margaret Brown. Published in 1952 by Scholastic in the USA. The pictures are by Barbara Cooney

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The above is my own personal copy of this book but it is in TERRIBLE condition. Luckily, I was able to find the below images are from an online source. But.... the colors in the scans are not correct. All of the colors are soft pastel colors and not the bright neon colors as they appear in this blog. But.... the good news is that you can see excellent copies of the pictures. All of the original pictures are in color in the originals and not black and white as some appear in this blog. If you…