This book records the lives and works of 101 "forgotten" illustrators of children's books. For the most part, they worked during what has been called the "Golden Age" of children's book illustration, but while they were contemporaneous with artists such as Walter Crane, Edmund Dulac, Louis Wain, Arthur Rackham, Cecil Aldin and Randolph Caldecott, most are now barely remembered (if, indeed, they are remembered at all). They were all commissioned to...