DOI Heft:
No. 33 (December, 1895)
DOI Artikel:Reviews of recent publications
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17295#0209
Reviews of Recent Publications
a most interesting collection of examples of some must needs be a mere memorandum. But for
of the younger illustrators. what they are, these illustrations are on the whole
Picture Posters. By Charles Hiatt. (Lon- notably good, and will reveal to those who did not
don: George Bell & Sons. 12^.6^. net.)—As The see the one exhibition in London, or the larger
Studio was one of the first, if not actually the collections in Paris, a vast amount of interesting
earliest magazine in England to devote space to the subjects. Mr. Hiatt, as befits his subject, is
consideration of the modern poster, it is only fitting nothing if not modern. Cheret and Toulouse-
to welcome the first book on the subject in our Lautrec are his deities, and he justifies his creed
language. Mr. Hiatt has done his work well. He by well-sustained argument. An irresistibly clever
has not attempted a catalogue ratsonne which would sketch of Mile. Yvette Guilbert, designed for a
poster, that was never carried out,
by Lautrec, is reproduced as
frontispiece. It is pleasant to
note a distinctly English style is
being formed by Greiffenhagen,
Anning Bell, and the brothers
Beggarstaff, a style which aims
at simplicity of masses, with
daring colour, that is nearer akin
to stained glass than to ordinary
chromo-lithography, in its use of
flat planes of positive unbroken
colour. The book is not limited,
however, to English work, but
has a quantity of French, Ger-
man, Spanish, Belgian, and
American examples, together with
a group of designs as yet unpub-
lished, which group includes two
or three notably good things.
A.B.C. An alphabet written
and pictured by Mrs. Arthur
Gaskin. (London: Elkin Ma-
thews. Price 3s. 6d )—A dainty
little picture-book for young chil-
dren. Even those of a larger
growth should take pleasure in
the perusal of a work so charm-
ingly illustrated and bound.
We are frequently told that
the Christmas card craze is dead,
but as the season comes round
"picture posters" (bell and sons). design by l. rhead a§ain k is difficult t0 detect
any falling off in the shop-window
displays or in the crowds of pur-
have been interesting to experts only, and from the chasers who throng round the counters reserved
nature of things out of date before it had emerged to the sale of these articles. Messrs. C. W. Faulk-
from the press; but he has given a graphic and ner & Co. have issued an interesting series this year,
well-informed sketch of the rise of the modern consisting of small, well printed collotypes from
illustrated placard, and with 150 reproductions has charming little drawings, appropriately mounted on
made his theme doubly attractive. Where so much neat cards. These should meet with a ready
depends on colour and scale, it is obvious that any demand from those to whom the garishly coloured
monochrome version within the pages of a book lithographs with lace edgings have no attraction.
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a most interesting collection of examples of some must needs be a mere memorandum. But for
of the younger illustrators. what they are, these illustrations are on the whole
Picture Posters. By Charles Hiatt. (Lon- notably good, and will reveal to those who did not
don: George Bell & Sons. 12^.6^. net.)—As The see the one exhibition in London, or the larger
Studio was one of the first, if not actually the collections in Paris, a vast amount of interesting
earliest magazine in England to devote space to the subjects. Mr. Hiatt, as befits his subject, is
consideration of the modern poster, it is only fitting nothing if not modern. Cheret and Toulouse-
to welcome the first book on the subject in our Lautrec are his deities, and he justifies his creed
language. Mr. Hiatt has done his work well. He by well-sustained argument. An irresistibly clever
has not attempted a catalogue ratsonne which would sketch of Mile. Yvette Guilbert, designed for a
poster, that was never carried out,
by Lautrec, is reproduced as
frontispiece. It is pleasant to
note a distinctly English style is
being formed by Greiffenhagen,
Anning Bell, and the brothers
Beggarstaff, a style which aims
at simplicity of masses, with
daring colour, that is nearer akin
to stained glass than to ordinary
chromo-lithography, in its use of
flat planes of positive unbroken
colour. The book is not limited,
however, to English work, but
has a quantity of French, Ger-
man, Spanish, Belgian, and
American examples, together with
a group of designs as yet unpub-
lished, which group includes two
or three notably good things.
A.B.C. An alphabet written
and pictured by Mrs. Arthur
Gaskin. (London: Elkin Ma-
thews. Price 3s. 6d )—A dainty
little picture-book for young chil-
dren. Even those of a larger
growth should take pleasure in
the perusal of a work so charm-
ingly illustrated and bound.
We are frequently told that
the Christmas card craze is dead,
but as the season comes round
"picture posters" (bell and sons). design by l. rhead a§ain k is difficult t0 detect
any falling off in the shop-window
displays or in the crowds of pur-
have been interesting to experts only, and from the chasers who throng round the counters reserved
nature of things out of date before it had emerged to the sale of these articles. Messrs. C. W. Faulk-
from the press; but he has given a graphic and ner & Co. have issued an interesting series this year,
well-informed sketch of the rise of the modern consisting of small, well printed collotypes from
illustrated placard, and with 150 reproductions has charming little drawings, appropriately mounted on
made his theme doubly attractive. Where so much neat cards. These should meet with a ready
depends on colour and scale, it is obvious that any demand from those to whom the garishly coloured
monochrome version within the pages of a book lithographs with lace edgings have no attraction.
194