New sketchbook!
Illustration by Paul Hoppe
Dope
Jessica Hische’s gorgeous illustrated alphabetic drop cap covers of literary classics, from Austen to Flaubert.
(Source: idisagreewithmymind, via dubbleyooseekay)
Jack Kerouac’s hand-drawn cross-country road trip map from On the Road.
Also see On the Road visualized as language structures.
(Source: phalusifer, via foxfeat)
The Game of Alice in Wonderland. Selchow & Righter, 1882.The unique publishing history of the 1865 first edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is essential in understanding the collecting history of the book. The Reverend Charles L. Dodgson, better known as author Lewis Carroll, wrote the story for the daughter of a family friend. After financing the printing and publishing of 2,000 copies of the story out of his own pocket in 1864, the author and his illustrator, artist John Tenniel, felt that the inking of the text and the reproduction of the artwork did not measure up to their standards.
Although Dodgson had presented 48 copies to friends and family, the remaining unbound sheets were sold to an American publisher, and 2,000 improved copies were set to be published by Macmillan, also to be paid for by the author.
Today, 23 copies of the 1865 edition of Alice are known to have survived. (more)
Emiliano Ponzi
I saw this graphic on the NYTimes website.
Emiliano Ponzi does a lot of work for newspaper and magazines. I really like his style.
A Village Life
Meltin Pot Milano
Escaping From Ivy College
Round the sides of the saloon were disposed aviaries, containing peacocks, turtle-doves, and innumerable varieties of rare birds.
From The child’s fairy library , stories by Madame d’Aulnoy, and Charles Perrault, London, circa 1837 (the wood engravings from this copy look like they’ve been meticulously colored by hand).
(Source: archive.org)
first expedition to masquigon
muskegon art museum, muskegon, 05/02/11
approximately 18 x 24”, printed on french cover
nine screens used
edition of 25, signed
the stib
approximately 18 x 24 inches, printed on french cover
seven screens used
edition of 290, signed
Paddington Bear
My favorite Paddington is the second artist, Fred Banbury, who illustrated the picture books.
The first illustrator, Peggy Fortnum, is also lovely.
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Beautiful illustrations by Lucy Engelman, combining my favorite things, cities and the ocean.
Boat City
Home on the Water
The monstre balloon.
John Leech (?), from The Ingoldsby legends, by Thomas Ingoldsby (Richard H. Barham), New York, 1848.
(Source: archive.org)
“So to note the fiftieth birthday of the closest thing that American literature has to an “Alice in Wonderland” of its own, Norton Juster’s “The Phantom Tollbooth”—with illustrations, by Jules Feiffer, that are as perfectly matched to Juster’s text as Tenniel’s were to Carroll’s—is to mark an anniversary that matters.”
- Adam Gopnik looks back at fifty years of “The Phantom Tollbooth.”
