THE 20TH CENTURY BOOK
ITS ILLUSTRATION AND DESIGN
John Lewis
John Lewis: THE 20TH CENTURY BOOK: ITS ILLUSTRATION AND DESIGN. London: Studio Vista, 1967. First edition. An near-fine oversized hardcover book in a near-fine dust jacket: trace of wear overall. Interior unmarked and very clean. An excellent and influential study: out-of-print. 9 x 12 hardcover book with 272 pages and 460 drawings, engravings and facsimiles, 28 in full colour. This book describes the changes and developments which have taken place in book design and illustration in Europe and the USA since the last years of the 19th century. It concentrates on English and American book design and illustration. It has chapters on art nouveau & private presses; the New Typography; French editions de luxe and American Book Clubs; Expressionism & Impressionism; the English and American illustrators; wood engravings; children's books; the paperback explosion and much more.
Lewis describes the influences in art and design that have shaped modern book design with particular emphasis on the work of William Morris and the Bauhaus typography workshop on the one hand, and of the modern movements of painting and design on the other. Great reference volume on Book Design and Typesetting history with various types, artists, quoting famous presses f.i. the Kelmscott Press and William Morris, The fabulous modern approach of the Russian Suprematists, Art Nouveau and Bauhaus.
Includes work by Rockwell Kent, El Lissitzky, Herbert Bayer, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Jan Tschichold, Paul Rand, Max Bill, Karl Gerstner, Paul Nash, E. McKnight Kauffer, Barnett Freedman, Eric Gill and many others.
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