200 years of American illustration by Henry Clarence Pitz
Publisher:  Random House
Published: 1977
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
Description: This book is the first comprehensive study of the entire history of of illustration in America. It is based upon the exhaustive bicentennial exhibition organized by The Society of Illustrators and shown at the New-York Historical Society. That exhibition gathered more than 900 examples of the best original works of art created for reproduction and virtually all of them are in this book, about 350 of them in full color. --book jacket.