Born 1870 on Talladega Plantation, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.  She left Louisiana as a very young woman and went to Paris. Mcmanus is primarily known as an illustrator , although she also authored books in her own right and with her husband. after studying in London and Paris she established a studio in Chicago in 1893 from where her she produced her first published illustrations "The True Mother Goose" (1895) was followed by "The Voyage Of The Mayflower" and "How The Dutch Came To Manhatten" (both 1897).

Mcmanus and her husband,  Francis Miltoun, subsequently embarked on a series of world travels which led to their settling in Europe. Throughout this time both retained contracts with American publishing houses and Mcmanus continued to accept commissions for illustration. The couple were contracted to L.C. Page &co between 1903 and 1927 and produced 25 books for that company. The last of these were "Rambles In Normandy" and "Rambles In Brittany".  Sometime in the 1920s, McManus was confined to a private mental institution in New Orleans.She died sometime between 1928 and 1942 or 43.

  

 

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Laszlo Matulay (Grosset & Dunlap 1951)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Thomas Maybank (Routledge London 1907)

 

Thomas Maybank - The Court of Faerie

Thomas Maybank 1898 - 1925.
He illustrated a number of books, incl. an Alice in Wonderland.

 

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Helen Monro (Nelson, London 1932)

 

Turner, Helen Monro (b Calcutta, 1901; d Edinburgh, 21 Sept 1977).

Scottish illustrator, glass-engraver and teacher. She was educated at George Watson’s Ladies College in Edinburgh, Edinburgh University, and later, at Edinburgh College of Art, where she specialized in wood-engraving. During the 1930s and 1940s she illustrated several books for Thomas Nelson & Sons of Edinburgh and designed and illustrated catalogues and advertisements for the Edinburgh & Leith Flint Glass Co., as well as submitting designs for intaglio work and tablewares. Her first exhibited glass was shown in the exhibition of British Art in Industry at the Royal Academy, London, in 1935. In 1938 she studied glass engraving, cutting and etching under Professor Wilhelm von Eiff (1890–1943) at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Stuttgart, returning to Britain at the outbreak of World War II. In March 1940 she established her own studio, and in January 1941 she started the department of Glass Design at the Edinburgh College of Art. In 1943 she married Professor W. E. S. Turner (1881–1963) and in 1947 she was appointed a full-time instructor at the college. By 1965 a furnace was added to the department so that all aspects of glass design and making could be taught. In 1956 she established the Juniper Green Workshop with John Lawrie (b 1928) on the outskirts of Edinburgh and for the rest of her career she worked on a wide range of commissions, from small-scale items to such large architectural panels as the windows at the National Library of Scotland (in situ).

 

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Barry Moser

 

    

 

 

Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Moser studied at Auburn University and the University of Tennessee at Chatanooga, and did post-graduate work at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Some of his most celebrated work has been his illustrations for Lewis Carrolls Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, each of which consisted of more than a hundred prints, and the former of which won him American book award for design and illustration in 1982. He has illustrated nearly 200 other works as well, including The Bible. He currently serves on the faculty of the Rhode Island School of Design and Smith College.

 

Irene Mountfort ( William Collins )

Gibson's New Star - Reader - Book Four

by JANE BROWN. Pub: Robert Gibson and Sons (Glasgow) Ltd. Cloth backed. Mint condition. Illustrations by Irene Mountfort. With 41 colour drawings and some black and white line drawings (one from Alice and the Mad Hatters Tea Party illustrated) .Navy blue and silver cloth cover.

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John Neill ( Reilly & Lee Co, Chicago 1908)

 

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Peter Newell (Harper, New York 1901)