Saturday, August 29, 2009

Kids Covers

Peeps into Zoo-Land


Queerie Queers with Hands, Wings and Claws


The Butterfly Ball


A Shadow Show


Object Teacher


Tit Tiny and Tittens the Three White Kittens


Chicken World


Our Airship ABC


Jack the Giant Killer


Mother McGrew and Daniel Donkey


Skeezix at the Circus


The Animals' Picnic


The Doggie's Promenade


The Remarkable Tale of a Whale


The Story of Snips



These scans of children's book covers were produced between 1860 and the 1920s and come from a wonderful compilation book:

'From Mother Goose to Dr Seuss: Children's Book Covers 1860-1960' by H Darling, 1999. There are a few more covers in the set.
Posted by peacay at

14 comments:

  1. Anonymous29 August, 2009 03:47

    Ah, these are fantastic. The rabbit's "quacky" shadow is especially choice.

    http://aqua-velvet.com

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  2. Victoria Thorne29 August, 2009 04:35

    magnificent!

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  3. David Apatoff29 August, 2009 09:15

    I concur that the rabbit's "quacky" shadow is great, but for me that "Chicken World" cover is the truly extraordinary contribution. It could grace the wall of any modern art museum. I'm going to try to track the book down.

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  4. nickyskye29 August, 2009 12:06

    So wonderful!

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  5. peacay29 August, 2009 15:32

    $95 for you David.

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  6. Bridget30 August, 2009 07:52

    Fantastic! Yes "Chicken world" and the quacky rabbit are incredible but "Tit" is great too and the mouse more familiar but so charming, I'm going to look at the set...

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  7. Laura Ottina31 August, 2009 20:57

    wonderful selection! blogged at http://theanimalarium.blogspot.com/2009/08/sunday-safari.html

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  8. Suzana Elvas31 August, 2009 23:10

    Hi!
    Your "Bibliodyssey" are in my Blog Day list.
    Greetings from Brazil,

    Suzana

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  9. Unknown01 September, 2009 03:51

    These are fabulous! I too liked the "quacky rabbit" but Daniel Donkey is my fav. Wonderful blog

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  10. mathersa04 September, 2009 00:07

    Holy Smokes! This is a beautiful blog - I really love these old fashioned cover illustrations - there is so much style and quality wrapped up in these vintage pieces

    www.apeonthemoon.com

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  11. David Apatoff12 September, 2009 12:30

    Peacay-- Yikes! And that's with missing pages and a loose spine.

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  12. lotusgreen13 September, 2009 11:06

    i too *loved* chicken book, and the whole thing is online here, david.

    also skeezix was a real eye-opener!

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  13. Karla13 September, 2009 12:19

    A great collection... some of them for the art and design, some of them for their strange bits of unintended humor. Well, and some for both!

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  14. dot17 September, 2009 04:07

    Ha ha, there's a children's picture book that just came out earlier this year called "Duck! Rabbit!" that takes the concept of that shadow show cover just a little bit further.

    http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780811868655-1

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