Inside the Atom (In a Beautiful Dustjcket)

London: Max Parrish, 1959. Pictorial cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. A very sharp, pleasing copy of the 1959 stated 2nd edition, uncommon even as such. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket. As part of the "Max Parrish Colour Book" series, the book is wonderfully illustrated and designed throughout in rich color. (From the publisher De Gruyter Brill, we offer their overview of the author Marie Neurath, based on their book "Marie Neurath and Isotype Picture Books": "Marie Neurath (1898-1986) was an illustrator and graphic designer who, from the mid-1940s to the late 1960s, created innovative non-fiction books for children. Together with her husband, politician and philosopher Otto Neurath (1882-1945), and artist and designer Gerd Arntz (1900-1988), she developed a method of visual representation in 1920s Vienna that became known as Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education). Influenced by the progressive ideas of the Vienna Circle, Isotype was intended to contribute to the democratization of knowledge. To this end, the Neuraths and their team created a special form of pictorial statistics that meant to make complex scientific relationships accessible to the layperson. In the postwar period, Marie Neurath developed several series of informative picturebooks for children that incorporated and further developed the Isotype principles. Although these picturebooks were hugely successful in their time, international picturebook research has barely acknowledged Marie Neurath’s legacy. This anthology is the first to elaborate Marie Neurath’s achievement as a transformer of knowledge for children and to analyze her distinctive, groundbreaking graphic method.").