The MFLIBRA Antique Books Blog

Florence Harrison’s delicate combinations of poetry, fantasy and Art Nouveau design in early twentieth-century illustrated books.

The Golden Age of Illustration from 1880 to 1914, examining the innovations and artists who transformed the illustrated book.

The quiet intensity of Dorothy P. Lathrop’s nature and fantasy illustrations, and the distinctive appeal of her books to collectors.

A survey of Edmund Dulac’s atmospheric fairy-tale illustrations and the editions, bindings and original plates that interest collectors.

The illustrated Sleeping Beauty of 1910: Edmund Dulac’s thirty mounted colour plates, Arthur Quiller-Couch’s retellings, and the difference between trade and signed deluxe copies.

A closer look at Cicely Mary Barker’s botanical observation, her Flower Fairies illustrations and the qualities collectors value in early editions.