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Description: Late Victorian Illustrators, Peter Rabbit, and The Wizard of Oz.
University of South Carolina Libraries - Rare Books and Special Collections Island 5: Late Victorian Illustrators,  The English illustrator Kate Greenaway (1846-1901), who trained at the Female School of Art, South Kensington, and the Slade School, began her career doing Christmas and Valentine cards. In 1879 she produced her first children's book through the expensive process of color-block engraving in collaboration with the publisher Edmund Evans. Her rather cute eighteenth-century costumes affected a whole generation, not only of children's books but of dress also. Shown here is the cover she illustrated for Beatrice Cresswell's 
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