Forty Illustrators and How They Work
by: Watson, Ernest W.

Hardcover. New York, Watson Guptill, 1st Ed., 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in 3 colors. 300 b&w illustrations, 24 in color. Profiles famous illustrators of the 1940s and includes their photo, examples of their work, a step-by-step demonstration of their working methods, and text written from interviews. Artists are: Constantin Alajalov, Boris Artzybasheff, John Atherton, Ernest Hamlin Baker, Walter Biggs, V. Bobri, Harrison Cady, Fred Cooper, Mario Cooper, Dean Cornwell, Gregory D'Alessio, Floyd Davis, Stevan Dohanos, Albert Dorne, Harvey Dunn, Carl Erickson, John Gannam, Glenn Grohe, George Giusti, Stuart Hay, Peter Helck, Earl Oliver Hurst, Walter Klett, Robert Lawson, Ervine Metzl, Wallace Morgan, William Oberhardt, Henry C. Pitz, George Price, Ray Prohaska, Robert Riggs, Leslie Ragan, Norman Rockwell, Martha Sawyers, Howard Scott, Amos Sewell, Donald Teague, Aldren A. Watson, Denys Wortman, and N. C. Wyeth. Top of spine has cloth frayed, rear edge of spine, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean.