The early Nancy Drew books were illustrated by Russell H. Tandy.
Click on each image in order to see it at a higher resolution.Glossy frontispiece used from 1935 to 1943:
Glossy internal used from 1935 to 1937:
Glossy internal used from 1935 to 1937:
Plain paper frontispiece used from 1943 to 1971:
Thanks for posting these, Jennifer. Frontispieces and internals from Russell Tandy were masterpieces. Even the later line drawings on war and post-war printings were nice, but of course not as nice as the ones on glossy paper. When I see these old internals, I feel sick about how awful the internal artwork became, especially in the 1970s.
ReplyDeleteThanks again.