Children's pictures to amuse and instruct. (London, 1820's.)
Children's Literature
About the Collection
Children's literature was a special interest throughout J. K. Lilly's collecting career, and he sought out the masterpieces of juvenile literature as avidly as those of adult literature.
However, most of the Lilly Library’s children's books come from the Elisabeth Ball collection, which came to the Library in 1983. The emphasis of the collection is on English language books of the 18th and 19th centuries, but includes a large number of 20th century books and representative works in French and German. Among them are hornbooks, mechanical books, thumb Bibles, miniature libraries, Newberry and Marshall imprints, and original art by children's book illustrators, including Kate Greenaway, Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, and Ernest Shepard.
