showpiece of some fine illustrators, working in quite different ways. Drawings of objects, made from different materials, are shown at their original drawn size as well as at their subsequent, reduced, published scale, so that the techniques used by the draftsman can be clearly seen and appreciated. Objects are described, oftentimes by specialists, and each drawing method has been written by the illustrators themselves, who share their methods here by giving step-by-step guides to how the illustrations were put together.

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