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118:(Horn Book, 1947), a 527-page collaborative work by Latimer, Bertha E. Mahony and Beulah Folmsbee, catalogs illustrators of children's books over two centuries. Latimer's primary contribution is a bibliography of over 800 illustrators and an author index. This four-volume set has been called "a landmark in the story of bookmaking."
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