"500 Years of Art & Illustration: From Albrecht Durer to Rockwell Kent" by Howard Simon, published by Garden City Publishing Company, Garden City, New York 1949.

Hard boards, original black and beige cloth with gold lettering on spine [ fading of the edge of the black cloth- see photos, a little soiling & wear]; large: 8.1/4" x 11.1/4"; name and "1951" is ink written on top of the front endpaper, 476 pages including Index, a little soiling, c.200 first pages have a bumped bottom corner [see photos]; very good condition.

An unrivaled treasury of the methods, techniques, and examples of the great illustrators, this volume covers five centuries of decorations for the printed page. Ranging from the dawn of printing to the twentieth century, it offers working artists and students an unsurpassed reference and source of inspiration. It also forms a delightful browsing book for lovers of art and illustrated books.

"Starting with 16th-century woodcuts by Albrecht Durer and Hans Holbein, the chronological presentation features works by Goya, Hogarth, Blake, Morris, Dore, Toulouse-Lautrec, Beardsley, and other masters. A brief text introduces each section, and the volume concludes with an international roster of modern (1st half of the 20th c.) artists, categorized by country. All that is best and outstanding in the field of illustration appears here, in this giant book of sketches, engravings, woodcuts, and lithography." [a review]

"This book is fantastic if you like art, and a must if you love printmaking. It is fantastic being able to see the transitions over time and across the world in illustrations and prints... the imagery itself is what is useful and it has a large collection of clearly represented images." [a private review]

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