Word & image: art, books and design : from the National Art Library

Director's foreword

A reader's foreword

'Word and image' : the evolution of the Victoria and Albert Museum's library / Julius Bryant

The growth of the library collection, 1837-1909 / Rowan Watson

Collecting the art and design of the book after 1909 / Elizabeth James

Art, Books and Design from the National Art Library. Introduction ; 1. Resources for art and design education ; 2. Making images : the illustrator at work ; 3. Designers, aesthetes and the 'book beautiful' ; 4. The impact of photography ; 5. Promoting commercial art : the initiative of 1936 ; 6. The fashion archive ; 7. Modern artists and the book

Timeline.