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Tag: Will Schofield

  • Vintage Japanese Book Illustrations

     

    Shotaro Honda, illus. for Kodomo no kuni, vol.II, no. 3, 1932
    Shotaro Honda, illus. for Kodomo no kuni, vol.II, no. 3, 1932

    Japanese, 1927 magazine cover

    Japanese, 1927 magazine cover

    Back cover of an issue of Kodomo no tenchi magazine, 1934

    Back cover of an issue of Kodomo no tenchi magazine, 1934

     

    These images are scans from the personal collection of ‘Will’, a book collector with an obsession for illustrations and graphic designs from around the world.

    To see the rest of the set, please visit the original post on his blog:  A Journey Round My Skull.

    [Update: He moved the images to a new site, 50 Watts.  New post link.]

    Old illustrations and old books in general are fascinating to me.  I actually have some old Sears catalogs from the 70s that I want to look through and maybe post some pictures from.