Word: rackham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ARTHUR RACKHAM, His LIFE AND WORK by Derek Hudson (181 pp.; Scribner; $20), tells the story of the British insurance clerk who became one of the two or three finest illustrators of children's books. The biography is a loving quiet account of a quiet life, but the book's main distinction lies in the Rackham illustrations. Those for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Wind in the Willows alone are enough to touch off shivers of nostalgia in all who knew them in childhood...