268 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Contents
In the beginning -- The later 18th century -- The early 19th century -- From the 1830s to the 1850s -- From 1860 to 1880 -- Chapbooks, toy books and the advent of colour -- Children's book cover of the 18th and 19th centuries -- Moonlight and shadow: 1880 to 1990 -- Edwardian extravagance: 1900 to 1918 -- The seeds of recovery: illustration between the wars -- The economies of the '40s and '50s -- 1960 to the present -- a riot of colour
