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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Geraldine BearePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint: Greenwood Press Edition: illustrated edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 4.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 1.361kg ISBN: 9780313231223ISBN 10: 0313231222 Pages: 859 Publication Date: 24 November 1982 Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews?Beare, an antiquarian book dealer, deserves some kind of award for indexing comprehensiveness. Besides standard author and subject approaches, there is also an index of illustrations. Numerous appendixes provide specific access points to children's stories, illustrated interviews, anonymous cartoons, multi-author series, etc. The subject index is a treasury of information on government figures, cinema, theater, animals, music, and, of course, royalty. Recommended for libraries providing in-depth reference for literary and historical researchers, including specialists in the graphic arts....?-Choice ?Geraldine Beare's volume is prepared, presumably, as a companion to the journal as it will be acquired by libraries in microfiche form. For anyone using the Strand systematically, her book will be an essential tool. She offers a brief history of the journal, and directories of authors, illustrators, articles and selected categories of article (symposia, children's stories, Portraits of Celebrities'). Work was normally signed or initialled, which has rendered identification easy in most cases. But the compiler has gone to the trouble of turning up authorial dates and has, where possible, penetrated pseudonyms. The quality of sheer painstaking labour that the 859 pages of this compilation represents is awesome.?-Times (London) Literary Supplement Beare, an antiquarian book dealer, deserves some kind of award for indexing comprehensiveness. Besides standard author and subject approaches, there is also an index of illustrations. Numerous appendixes provide specific access points to children's stories, illustrated interviews, anonymous cartoons, multi-author series, etc. The subject index is a treasury of information on government figures, cinema, theater, animals, music, and, of course, royalty. Recommended for libraries providing in-depth reference for literary and historical researchers, including specialists in the graphic arts.... -Choice Geraldine Beare's volume is prepared, presumably, as a companion to the journal as it will be acquired by libraries in microfiche form. For anyone using the Strand systematically, her book will be an essential tool. She offers a brief history of the journal, and directories of authors, illustrators, articles and selected categories of article (symposia, children's stories, Portraits of Celebrities'). Work was normally signed or initialled, which has rendered identification easy in most cases. But the compiler has gone to the trouble of turning up authorial dates and has, where possible, penetrated pseudonyms. The quality of sheer painstaking labour that the 859 pages of this compilation represents is awesome. -Times (London) Literary Supplement ?Geraldine Beare's volume is prepared, presumably, as a companion to the journal as it will be acquired by libraries in microfiche form. For anyone using the Strand systematically, her book will be an essential tool. She offers a brief history of the journal, and directories of authors, illustrators, articles and selected categories of article (symposia, children's stories, Portraits of Celebrities'). Work was normally signed or initialled, which has rendered identification easy in most cases. But the compiler has gone to the trouble of turning up authorial dates and has, where possible, penetrated pseudonyms. The quality of sheer painstaking labour that the 859 pages of this compilation represents is awesome.?-Times (London) Literary Supplement Author Informationare /f Geraldine /r comp. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |