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Softcover. Zustand: As New. First Edition. Five apparently unused, unread volumes, each bound in a short oblong softcover format, illustrated, pictorial card-stock covers, two being in gate-fold, each bearing the title The Illustrators and with four different time periods denoting periods of The British Art of Illustration, but beginning in each case in 1800. Augmented with hundreds and hundreds of full-color illustrations. Both front and rear of each softcover illustrated in full color. These four volumes provide a wonderful, comprehensive, heavily augmented survey, part art-historical, part social-biographical of illustrators ranging from Arthur Rackham to Kate Greenaway but also including Margaret Winifred Tarrant, Helen Mary Jacobs, Beatrice May Goldsmith, Harry Clarke and many, many hundreds of others, each being rendered at volumes' ends in name and cumulative index. Each volume with extensive, involved Tables of Contents, for example, the third volume with Prelude: Rowlandson & Cruikshank / Fairy & Fantasy Illustration / Presenting Mr Punch / Rivals to Punch / Frank Reynolds /In Memoriam: John Strickland Goodall / Postlude: Kathleen Hale & Lesley Anne Ivory and another volume with Fairy & Fantasy Illustrators - Essay: Victorian Fairy Painting: A Background to Fantastic Illustration / Artists' Club; The Langham, The Savage & The London Sketch Club - Essay: The Club Culture / The Political Cartoon; Dyson, Low, Vicky, Illingworth, Cummings - Essay: The Emergence of the New Cartoon / The Funny; Modern & Contemporary Cartooning - Essay: The Fine Art of Cartooning. Volume One (1800-1991), [5], 6-192 pp. Volume Two (1800-1992), [6], 7-216 pp.; Volume Three (1800-1997), [5], 6-288 pp.; Volume Four (1800-2002), [3], 4-124 pp.; Volume Five The Illustrators: the British Art of Illustration (1780-1996), [5], 6-256 pp. Laid in to the fourth of five volumes is a catalogue price-list for items illustrated by Peter Cross, Edward Lear, Charles Doyle, Richard Doyle, Walter Crane, Arthur Boyd Houghton, Henry Justice Ford, and many, many others. An absolutely indispensable set of reference tools and that are beautiful to look at.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.