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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 381277, member: 56"]Probably lost the title in the process.</p><p><br /></p><p>The family of my BIL operated a book publishing/distribution/retail business in England before WWI. He says that they published 100s of titles and there's virtually no info on any of them. They had no pretensions to literature, were more or less the comic books of their day. If there's not a name printed on it, you're probably never going to know who did it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'll bet there are forums out there dedicated to illustrators, but I don't know where. You might actually find the illustrator (possibly the publisher) by contacting a postcard group. I'll bet there was a lot of overlap. There's something very familiar in the appearance of those children.</p><p><br /></p><p>Germany was a printing powerhouse in the first part of the 20th C.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 381277, member: 56"]Probably lost the title in the process. The family of my BIL operated a book publishing/distribution/retail business in England before WWI. He says that they published 100s of titles and there's virtually no info on any of them. They had no pretensions to literature, were more or less the comic books of their day. If there's not a name printed on it, you're probably never going to know who did it. I'll bet there are forums out there dedicated to illustrators, but I don't know where. You might actually find the illustrator (possibly the publisher) by contacting a postcard group. I'll bet there was a lot of overlap. There's something very familiar in the appearance of those children. Germany was a printing powerhouse in the first part of the 20th C.[/QUOTE]
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