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The Circus, mock-up for a book cover, c1950. Creator: Shirley Markham
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Textile Wrapper for Jingoji Sutras, 12th century. Creator: Unknown
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Nathalie Madoré, 1895. Creator: Theophile Alexandre Steinlen
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Parchment Book Cover, 1935/1942. Creator: Robert W.R. Taylor
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Cover Design for A Book of Fifty Drawings, 1897. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
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Cover Design to Volpone by Ben Jonson, 1898. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
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Cover Design for Smithers Catalogue of Rare Books, 1896. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
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Cover Design to Life and Times of Madame du Barry, 1896. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
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The Circus, mock-up for a book cover, c1950. Creator: Shirley Markham
The Circus, mock-up for a book cover, c1950. Illustration for "The Circus" by E Dermot Wellington. Shirley Markham (1931-1999) studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Central School of Art in London from 1950-1952. The writer, artist, poet, and illustrator Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was one of her tutors, and her style of drawing was also influenced by other British illustrators such as Edward Ardizzone, Quentin Blake and Edward Bawden. Markham spent time in the Dolomite Mountains in Italy, and also visited Rome, sketching classical buildings. After graduating from Central, she worked as a graphic designer, producing book illustrations, cartoons for comics, menus and programmes. She gave up her promising career however when she got married in 1957. Middle-class women at that time were expected to devote their energies to bringing up children and running the home, and despite her obvious talent, she lacked the confidence to return to illustration. Her portfolio remained in the family attic for many years, but now her work is published here for the first time
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Ali Baba, Cover Design for a proposed edition of The Forty Thieves, 1897
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Cover Design to The Houses of Sin, by Vincent O'Sullivan, 1897. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
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Cover Design for Dowson's Verses, 1896. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
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Cover Design to The Pierrot of the Minute, 1897. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
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Cover Design for The Yellow Book, Vol I, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
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Cover Design for The Yellow Book, Vol III, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
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Sutra Cover, China, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), c. 1590s. Creator: Unknown
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Old Book, "Life of Wesley", c. 1936. Creator: Magnus S. Fossum
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Cover Design, 1895-1896. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
Cover Design, 1895-1896. Scissors motif flanked by candelabras. Illustration for "The Rape of the Lock" by Alexander Pope, published privately by Leonard Smithers in 1896. Rape in this context refers not to sexual violence but to the theft and carrying away of a lock of hair, from the Latin rapere: to snatch, to grab, to carry off. From "The Best of Beardsley" edited by R. A. Walker, [The Bodley Head, London, 1948]
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Front cover of "The Best of Beardsley", 1948. Creator: Unknown
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The Shahnamah of Firdausi, Mughal dynasty, late 18th century. Creator: Unknown
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Book jacket for "Les Rassemblements", 1896. Creator: Félix Vallotton
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Les Vielles Histoires (cover/frontispiece), 1893. Creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Cover for "Au pied du Sinaï", 1898. Creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Four Lithographed Bookcovers, One for Our Antipodes, 1845-70. Creator: Alfred Crowquill
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Book Cover Plaque with Christ in Majesty and the Symbols of the Four Evangelists, German
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Cover From a Japanese Illustrated Book, ca. 1739., ca. 1739. Creator: Okumura Masanobu
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Album Leaf with Calligraphic Exercise (siyah mashq), dated A.H. 1258/ A.D. 1842-3
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Book jacket for "Les Rassemblements", 1896. Creator: Félix Vallotton
Book jacket for "Les Rassemblements", 1896. [Physiologies de la rue par M.M. Paul Adam, Alfred Athys, Victor Barrucand, Tristan Bernard, Leon Blum, Romain Coolus, Felix Feneon, Gustave Kahn, Ernest La Jeunesse, L, Muhlfeld, Thadee Natanson, Edmond Pilon, Jules Renard, Pierre Veber et Veek: Prologue par Octave Uzanne]
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French Renaissance weaving, embroidery and book covers, (1898). Creator: Unknown
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German Renaissance ornaments from book covers, (1898). Creator: Unknown
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, c1950. Creator: Shirley Markham
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Select Plans of the Principal Cities, Harbours & Forts in the World by John Luffman, 1801
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Mosaic binding signed by Le Monnier and bearing the monogram of Maria Josepha of Saxony, c1750 (19 Artist: Le Monnier)
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Poster to the Book Babylone d'Allemagne by Victor Joze, 1894. Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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