As a young child, before the age of eight, Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense, including the much loved The Owl and the Pussycat, and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland had made their impression, although she later said of Alice that she was more interested in Tenniel's illustrations than what they were about.

But most often her illustrations were fantasies featuring her own pets: mice, rabbits, kittens, and guinea pigs.

In their heyday of the first half of the 17th century, they were printed in black-letter or gothic type and included multiple, eye-catching illustrations, a popular tune tile, as well as an alluring poem.

Esmont's illustrations were recently published and can be viewed by clicking on the link below.

Before the advent of printing, breviaries were written by hand and were often richly decorated with initials and miniature illustrations telling stories in the lives of Christ or the saints, or stories from the Bible.

The Italian physician Guido da Vigevano ( c. 1280 − 1349 ), planning for a new crusade, made illustrations for a paddle boat and war carriages that were propelled by manually turned compound cranks and gear wheels ( center of image ).

It is not known whether the game's printed screen shots were from an actual prototype or were merely pre-development illustrations.

He never tried to draw more than stick figures because the drawings, for him, were illustrations to get the story told.

Rosa had discovered too often that his stories were printed with incorrect pages of art, improper colors, poor lettering, or pixelated computer conversions of the illustrations.

A feature of these publications is the high-quality illustrations made by engravers like Wilson Lowry of art work supplied by specialist draftsmen like John Farey, Jr. Encyclopaedias were published in Scotland, as a result of the Scottish Enlightenment, for education there was of a higher standard than in the rest of the United Kingdom.

His illustrations were strongly influenced by French and German black and white art.

These illustrations were often placed in ceremonial and sacred locations inside of the caves.

His anatomical reports, based mainly on dissection of monkeys and pigs, remained uncontested until 1543, when printed descriptions and illustrations of human dissections were published in the seminal work De humani corporis fabrica by Andreas Vesalius where Galen's physiological theory was accommodated to these new observations.

The illustrations recorded in the book of Scivias were visions that Hildegard experienced, causing her great suffering and tribulations.

Maps in the Chronicle were the first ever illustrations of many cities and countries.

Some of these illustrations were of German soldiers, because his four years of primary schooling at the Ixelles Municipal School No. 3 coincided with World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ), during which Brussels was occupied by the German Empire.

Narrative Biblical scenes, especially as book illustrations, remained acceptable, and were encouraged.

Tenniel's illustrations for the Alice books were engraved onto blocks of deal wood by the Brothers Dalziel.

Among his last completed works were the illustrations for Balzac's Droll Stories ( 1961 ) and for his own poem The Rhyme Of The Flying Bomb ( 1962 ), which he had written some 15 years earlier.

A variety of specialized styluses were used on the stencil to render lettering, illustrations, or other artistic features by hand against a textured plastic backing plate.

Letters and typographical symbols were sometimes used to create illustrations, in a precursor to ASCII art.

A planned series of lectures in North America in 1962 was cancelled due to an illness, but the illustrations and text for the lectures, written out in full by Escher, were later published as part of the book Escher on Escher.

Some of the most influential studies of Pteranodon during the 20th Century were published by George Francis Eaton, who conducted thorough re-analysis of the known specimens and published some of the first good photographs and illustrations of the best specimens.

In 1893 the same printer brought several more drawings for Weatherly ’ s Our Dear Relations, another book of rhymes, and the following year Potter successfully sold a series of frog illustrations and verses for Changing Pictures, a popular annual offered by the art publisher Ernest Nister.

With racy illustrations, these sold millions of copies in the 1930s and were equally popular in paperbacks of the 1950s.

The Rules state: " The Contest is open to those who have not previously published more than three black-and-white story illustrations, or more than one process-color painting, in media distributed nationally to the general public, such as magazines or books sold at newsstands, or books sold in stores merchandising to the general public.

The popular United States paperback edition published by Collier between 1970 and 1994, which sold many millions, had only 17 illustrations, many of them severely cropped from the originals, giving many readers in that country a very different experience when reading the novel.

Often, instead of doing lessons, Peet would draw in the margins of his textbooks — which were very popular for their added illustrations when he sold them back.

Punch and similar magazines such as the Parisian Le Voleur realised that good illustrations sold as many copies as written content.

The text was adapted and published with coloured illustrations as a large format book, which was very successful, 25, 000 copies being rapidly sold and a second edition appearing two years later.

Through the 1890s, Remington took frequent trips around the U. S., Mexico, and abroad to gather ideas for articles and illustrations, but his military and cowboy subjects always sold the best, even as the Old West was playing out.

An agency is coupled with interest when the agent himself has an interest in the subject-matter of the agency, e. g., where the goods are consigned by an upcountry constituent to a commission agent for sale, with poor to recoup himself from the sale proceeds, the advances made by him to the principal against the security of the goods ; in such a case, the principal cannot revoke the agent ’ s authority till the goods are actually sold, nor is the agency terminated by death or insanity ( illustrations to section 201 );

Paul's illustrations for this are full of visual jokes and witty detail, and he has gone on to illustrate nine other Winnie the Witch titles which have sold in their millions.

Bookbreaking is most often motivated by a market situation in which the maps or illustrations in a book will have more value sold separately than the value of the intact book.

The larger illustrations were also sold separately as prints, often hand-coloured in watercolour.

He then began an association with the Leicester Gallery and Hodder & Stoughton ; the gallery commissioned paintings from Dulac which they sold ; the rights to the paintings were purchased by Hodder & Stoughton, who used them as illustrations in illustrated books, publishing one book a year.

Under the pseudonym Zack, Oliver Frey creates gay illustrations some of which are sold online.

Wolgemut was a leader among the artists reviving the standards of German woodcut at this time, mostly supplying the many publishers in Nuremberg with book illustrations, of which the most attractive were also sold separately.

In 1865 came the " Illustrated History of England ", in weekly and monthly parts, totalling 8 volumes and with around 2000 illustrations ; more than a quarter of a million copies were sold of the first edition.

While continuing to paint pulp covers at this time, Bergey sold illustrations to at least four ( 4 ) leading paperback publishing houses, including Popular Library and Pocket Books.

A library such as Montaigne's was a rare occurrence for people other than lawyers and members of parliament who had had an elite education in the universities ; for the public, the broadsheet or penny press ( with woodcut illustrations ) sold door to door by colporters would have been their only access to the written word.