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  2. Children's literature - Wikipedia

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    The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) is a canonical piece of children's literature and one of the best-selling books ever published. [1] Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended ...

  3. Cultural depictions of the Salem witch trials - Wikipedia

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    The story of Salem featured prominently in many publications in the 19th century about the 17th century colonial foundations of the United States. The illustrations continue to be reproduced widely in 20th and 21st century publications, in many cases without accurate attribution or reference to the century in which the illustrations were created.

  4. Book illustration - Wikipedia

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    Book illustration as we now know it evolved from early European woodblock printing. In the early 15th century, playing cards were created using block printing, which was the first use of prints in a sequenced and logical order. "The first known European block printings with a communications function were devotional prints of saints."

  5. Book frontispiece - Wikipedia

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    A frontispiece painted by William Blake for his Milton a Poem, published in 1810. A frontispiece in books is a decorative or informative illustration facing a book's title page, usually on the left-hand, or verso, page opposite the right-hand, or recto page of a book. [1] In some ancient editions or in modern luxury editions the frontispiece ...

  6. Joyce Dennys - Wikipedia

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    Joyce Dennys. Isobel Dorothy Joyce Dennys (14 August 1893 – 23 February 1991) was an English cartoonist, illustrator and painter. She worked for the Voluntary Aid Detachment during the First World War and designed and created recruitment posters for both it and the Women's Royal Naval Service. Dennys spent 1919 and 1921 working in Australia ...

  7. Dutch Golden Age painting - Wikipedia

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    Johannes Vermeer, The Milkmaid (1658–1661) Dutch Golden Age painting is the painting of the Dutch Golden Age, a period in Dutch history roughly spanning the 17th century, [1] during and after the later part of the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) for Dutch independence. The new Dutch Republic was the most prosperous nation in Europe and led ...

  8. Illustrated fiction - Wikipedia

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    A plate from the 1742 deluxe edition of Samuel Richardson 's Pamela, or, Virtue Rewarded. Illustrated fiction is a hybrid narrative medium in which images and text work together to tell a story. It can take various forms, including fiction written for adults or children, magazine fiction, comic strips, and picture books.

  9. Ex Libris (bookplate) - Wikipedia

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    George Bancroft's bookplate and signature. "εἰς φάος" is Greek for "Toward the Light". The tablet is an ancient Roman tabula ansata.. An Ex Libris from ex-librīs (Latin for 'from the books (or library)'), [1] [2] also known as a bookplate (or book-plate, as it was commonly styled until the early 20th century), [3] is a printed or decorative label pasted into a book, often on the front ...