Essays. Introduction -- Bibliophiles in the nursery : the gradual legitimacy of collecting rare children's books / Justin G. Schiller -- "Pity that any children should be .. .brought up ... without the skill of reading" / Jill Shefrin -- Cutting loose : productivity and inventiveness among the nineteenth-century publishers / Brian W. Alderson -- Imagination, invention, and appropriation in twentieth-century picture-book art / Nick Clark -- The catalogue. Principles of description ; Abbreviations and glossary ; References ; One hundred books.
