Talk:Book illustration

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IF YOU ARE DOING ILLUSTIONS FOR A RUBBISH CHILDRENS BOOK ,HOW DO YOU COME UP WITH THE PRICE OF YOUR WORK? THIS IS MY FIRST TIME ILLUSTING A BOOK, HOW DO I CHARGE THE PUBLISHER. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.124.178.185 (talk) 21:57, 28 June 2010

Copied question to WP:RD/H#Book illustration pricing where you are much more likely to get answers. Astronaut (talk) 02:34, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Image of Ophelia at top of article by Hughes and Cousen

The image "Ophelia. An illustration for The Works of Shakespeare, with notes by Charles Knight, ca. 1873" at the top of the article Book illustration is by Arthur Hughes (Painter) and Charles Cousen (engraver). See my contribution on the Wikimedia Commons Discussion page for the file. --Carson Bwye (talk) 00:04, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

First engravings in printed book

This articles states that " the 1477 Bolognese edition of Ptolemy's Cosmographia was both the first book to contain printed maps and the first to be illustrated by engravings", but Colard Mansion published in 1476 "De la ruine des nobles hommes et femmes (De Casibus Virorum Illustrium) by Giovanni Boccaccio, translated into French by Laurent Premierfait, was the first book to be illustrated with engravings," as evidenced by this source[1], "[...] may be the earliest on record". Fram (talk) 13:42, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

The Mansion book is a fascinating and complex case for various reasons, but not a normal "illustrated book" (most copies don't have the illustrations pasted in). See Kren, T. & McKendrick, Scot (eds), Illuminating the Renaissance – The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, Getty Museum/Royal Academy of Arts, 2003, ISBN 19033973287 for a long discussion. When the illustrations were made is a very moot point. I might write something on this & the Bologna Ptolemy, but I'm not sure where to put it. Johnbod (talk) 17:16, 27 August 2014 (UTC)