Lewis, John and Brinkley, John The Twentieth Century Book - Its Illustration and Design , London: Studio Vista, 1967.

Illustrated by Numerous Colour & b/w Illustrations. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Lge 4to Heavy book but no extra postage over standard rate will be asked for posting to a UK address. Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Red cloth with bright gilt titling on spine & upper cover. No ownership inscription.Numerous Colour & b/w Illustrations. 270 pages clean and tight. The Twentieth Century Book is written and designed for readers who care about books, for book collectors and lovers of good illustration. It will be of immense value to librarians as a reference work and cannot fail to stimulate typographers, designers, illustrators, publishers and printers. Over 460 magnificent and wide-ranging illustrations, of which 28 are in full colour and many more in two colours, supplement the knowledgeable and lively text. In his first section the author describes the changes and developments which have taken place in book design and illustration in Europe and the USA since the last years of the nineteenth century. He depicts the conflict of ideas which has persisted in the design of books since the 1 880's, from the conflict between the Art Nouveau movement and the followers of William Morris to the clash between the protagonists of die Neue Typographie in Germany and the supporters of the renaissance of printing in England and the United States. The central section of the book is devoted to book illustration, beginning with the influence of the French editions de luxe on American and British illustrated books, and showing the work of such artists as Bonnard, Segonzac, Dufy and Leger. A chapter on German Expressionist and Impressionist illustrators introduces the work of Slevogt, Kokoschka, Georg Grosz and Paul Klee, together with the Surrealist book illustrations of Max Ernst and his followers. A discussion of English and American traditional illustration is followed by a comparison of the wood-engraving revivals in France and England. This is followed by a massive array of children's illustrated books, covering many favourites since the beginning of the century, and demonstrates the variety of illustration to be found in a fascinating comparative study of many different editions of R. L. Stevenson's Treasure Island. The work of modern graphic designers in this field has not been neglected, and the chapter ends with a short section called 'The Sugared Pill' which discusses the educational book for the young and the not-so-young. After a final chapter tracing the development of the modern paperback and showing how its design has influenced the look of hard-cover books, the book closes with a discussion of the role to be played by the new kind of author-designer in fashioning the books of tomorrow. John Lewis is the author of Printed Ephemera and Graphic Design (in collaboration with John Brinkley). He has lectured widely in the USA and Britain and was from 1951-64 a tutor at the Royal College of Art. He is also the editor and designer of the Studio Vista/Reinhold Art Paperbacks, which include his own Typography: Basic Principles and (with Bob Gill) Illustration: Aspects and Directions. (Book ref. 127741)  £20.00

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