Pictured Worlds: Masterpieces of Children's Book Art by 101 Top Illustrators from Around the World

by Leonard Marcus and Leonard S. Marcus

The illustrated children's book came of age in the eighteenth century as part and parcel of rising middle-class demand for economic and social advancement. Inspired by Enlightenment philosopher John Locke's prescient insights into child development, London publisher John Newbery established the first viable commercial market for illustrated "juveniles" in the West, and the pattern he helped set has often repeated itself since as books tailored to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590202430
• ISBN13: 9781590202432
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: ABRAMS
• Length: 416 Pages