Rabbit Hill
Title
Rabbit Hill
Creator
Robert Lawson, book's author
Publisher
New York: The Viking Press
Date
1944
1st edition
Contributor
Megan Lepak researched and wrote the event description in 2018.
Description
For a description of the book, please click on the image of the event label/description or scroll to the bottom of the page for the section entitled "Text" for a transcription of the attached document.
Subject
Literature / Children's Literature
Identifier
SPECIAL PZ10.3 .L39 1944
Language
English, book's contents
English, event description
English, event description
Relation
This book has another record in the "Beautiful Books" Lobby Display Collection.
To see this book on November 15, 2018 in the "Event Photographs" Collection, please go here [Photograph of Books] 05454 and here [Photograph of Books] IMG_0583.
This is a curator favorite in the "Beautiful Books" Highlights Collection.
To see this book on November 15, 2018 in the "Event Photographs" Collection, please go here [Photograph of Books] 05454 and here [Photograph of Books] IMG_0583.
This is a curator favorite in the "Beautiful Books" Highlights Collection.
Text
Transcription of event description:
RABBIT HILL | ROBERT LAWSON | NEW YORK: THE VIKING PRESS | 1944 | 1ST EDITION
This storybook takes a realistic and detailed approach to the portrayal of its characters and scenes in its illustrations and cover art. The cover is tan cloth featuring a clear focal point of a smiling and waving rabbit. He seems to beckon the viewer to come and read his story, and many did as older folks, who were children in the 1940s and 1950’s, have fond memories of this story. The cover also features a detailed organic and floral pattern in blue-green ink. The endpapers feature a realistic drawing of “The Hill” which the reader can use as a map to follow along with the story’s setting. The use of a map on the endpapers of a volume became popular from the 1940s to 1951, and is called the Mapback Cover style. The textblock features more realistic yet adorable illustrations of animals and scenes in the story. Some of the illustrations are vignettes used in combination with raised capitals throughout the text to help keep readers engaged. Printed in large type and liberally illustrated with endearing animal portrayals, clearly, this book was meant to be enjoyed by early to mid-grade schoolchildren. Although from a distance these look like a cooper or steel-plate engraving, under the Lightscope the patterning looks more like chalk-style lithography.
English Professor Emeritus, Dr. Andrew “Drew” Dillon, who taught at Flagler for several decades, donated this book just over a year before his death in 2015. He is remembered fondly by all who knew him.
RABBIT HILL | ROBERT LAWSON | NEW YORK: THE VIKING PRESS | 1944 | 1ST EDITION
This storybook takes a realistic and detailed approach to the portrayal of its characters and scenes in its illustrations and cover art. The cover is tan cloth featuring a clear focal point of a smiling and waving rabbit. He seems to beckon the viewer to come and read his story, and many did as older folks, who were children in the 1940s and 1950’s, have fond memories of this story. The cover also features a detailed organic and floral pattern in blue-green ink. The endpapers feature a realistic drawing of “The Hill” which the reader can use as a map to follow along with the story’s setting. The use of a map on the endpapers of a volume became popular from the 1940s to 1951, and is called the Mapback Cover style. The textblock features more realistic yet adorable illustrations of animals and scenes in the story. Some of the illustrations are vignettes used in combination with raised capitals throughout the text to help keep readers engaged. Printed in large type and liberally illustrated with endearing animal portrayals, clearly, this book was meant to be enjoyed by early to mid-grade schoolchildren. Although from a distance these look like a cooper or steel-plate engraving, under the Lightscope the patterning looks more like chalk-style lithography.
English Professor Emeritus, Dr. Andrew “Drew” Dillon, who taught at Flagler for several decades, donated this book just over a year before his death in 2015. He is remembered fondly by all who knew him.
Original Format
Book / Unpublished Print Document
Collection
Citation
Robert Lawson, book's author, “Rabbit Hill,” Beautiful Books in Flagler College's Special Collections, accessed May 14, 2024, https://beautifulbooks.omeka.net/items/show/197.