TO MOTHER

This book has been the result of many helping hands and minds. Many who never dreamed their
ideas would appear in a book are here, like my friends, Edward Warwick, Leroy Wolfe and William
Blood. Something is here from our many long conversations about illustration; something is also
here from the shop talk of many of my fellow illustrators. It is the illustrators, of course, who have
made the book. Many took great trouble to find and send me specific illustrations. Some, to whom
I am particularly indebted, are Fritz Eichenberg, Constantin Alajálov, Warren Chappell, Robert
Fawcett, Vera Bock, Roger Duvoisin, Clare Newberry, Frederick T. Chapman and Gluyas Williams.

The publishers have been almost uniformly kind in releasing work. Many editors have given
largely of their time in making suggestions and hunting out original drawings or proofs. I owe a
debt to Lillian Bragdon, Sabra P. Mallett, Rose Dobbs, Nancy Hunnekens, Sydney Jacobs and
Arthur Rushmore for their great help. My thanks also go to George Macy for opening the riches of
the Limited Editions and Heritage Clubs and to Morris Colman, Bertha Gunterman, Elizabeth
Riley, Eunice Blake, Gertrude Blumenthal, Helen Frye, Barbara Chapin, S. Elizabeth De Voy,
R. A. Freiman, A. P. Tedesco, Margaret Lesser, Ursula Nordstrom, Helen Ferris and May Massee.

A special acknowledgment is due Lucille Ogle for all the material she gathered and for her valuable
assistance in preparing the offset color pages. Also for their help in the production of the book,
acknowledgments are due to George W. Miller and Sam Faber.

Lastly, I must pay a tribute to my publisher, Bryan Holme. He has been enthusiastic and fertile
in ideas and has taken on his shoulders the greater portion of the burden of all the many details that
have gone into the making of the book.

THE AUTHOR

The spot drawing on this page is by FEODOR ROJANKOVSKY from "The Voyages of Jacques Cartier"by
Esther Averill. ( Domino Press).

Copyright 1947, Holme Press, Inc.

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY PLANTIN PRESS AND WESTERN PRINTING AND LITHOGRAPHING COMPANY

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