The Rocket Book

Friday, January 6, 2012

The Rocket Book

"The upward progress of a rocket,
lit in the basement by the janitor's son,
causes some strange situations as it
passes through 20 floors of apartments!"



Illustrated children's book : The Rocket Book (cover)




Illustrated children's book : The Rocket Book 1912 b



Illustrated children's book : The Rocket Book 1912 i



Illustrated children's book : The Rocket Book 1912 g



Illustrated children's book : The Rocket Book 1912 s



Illustrated children's book : The Rocket Book 1912 m



Illustrated children's book : The Rocket Book 1912 v



Illustrated children's book : The Rocket Book 1912 w



Illustrated children's book : The Rocket Book 1912 a



Illustrated children's book : The Rocket Book 1912


American artist and author, Peter Newell (1862-1924), established his credentials providing humorous illustrations for famous magazines and newspapers in the last two decades of the 19th century.

Newell also illustrated popular books by other authors (Twain and Carroll, for instance) and wrote and illustrated a series of his own children's books. These latter works proved fairly influential and tended to revolve around a single theme (or perhaps, gimmick). The 'Topsys & Turvys' series could be viewed right way up or upside down; 'The Hole Book' had an actual physical hole through all its pages and 'The Rocket Book', above, features the recurring sight of a rocket flying through each illustrated scene.

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