Better Homes and Gardens Story Book: Favorite Stories and Poems from Children's Literature, with Illustrations from Famous Editions

Better Homes and Gardens Story Book: Favorite Stories and Poems from Children's Literature, with Illustrations from Famous Editions

Betty O'Conner, selector

Helen Dean Fish
Edward Lear
Helen Bannerman
Helen Hill
Violet Maxwell
Christina G. Rossetti
Randolph Caldecott
Edward Lear
Beatrix Potter
Dorothy Aldis
Rowena Bastin Bennett
Gelett Burgess
Joel Chandler Harris
Marie Louis Allen
Vachel Lindsay
Janet Smalley
Olive A. Wadsworth
A.A. Milne
Robert Louis Stevenson
Palmer Cox
Rudyard Kipling
Daniel O'Connor
Al Graham
Lydia Maria Child
Aesop
Mother Goose
Rachel Filed
Clement C. Moore

Des Moines, IA: Meredith Publishing Company

1950

The covers of this book are a yellow linen-texture cloth with a plain back and a decorated front. The front cover includes painted stamped imagery of six included stories in orange, yellow, blue, and green, while in light blue the name of the story is stamped and painted in light blue. In darker blue in the center of the book is the title. The spine includes two figures from an additional two stories as well as the title and the selector's last name.
The paper for this book is made of wood pulp and this includes the endpapers that look coated, but simply are a different texture from the textblock. The endpapers are yellow that have been covered with a purple background allowing the yellow to come through as line drawings of different characters from the stories inside.
Since this is a compilation of stories held in copyright by other publishers, each story listed who owns the copyright. The illustrations are in a wide variety of style as they are reproduced from the original source or a famous version. Several of the stories were reprinted on white glossy paper. Because the illustrations are from the original source, their coloration is also different, meaning some are full color, others are black line drawings, and some are printed in two or three colors only. Consequently, the technique for creating the illustrations differs from lithographs to wood block to what looks like watercolor, so possibly intaglio.

Literature / Children's Literature

SPECIAL PZ5 .B433 1950

Hardcover book, 10.25 x 7.625 inches

English

This book has another record in the "Beautiful Books" Exhibit Collection.
This book can be seen in the photograph, Display Case 7.

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