James Allan Duncan

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Occupation: illustrator; cover designer
Type: Identified
Title: James Allan Duncan See all items with this value
Monogram or signature used: JAD See all items with this value; JAD (in box) See all items with this value
Spatial Coverage: United Kingdom See all items with this value
Description: Originally from Glasgow, Duncan relocated to London sometime in 1899 or so. Not much is known of him in the literature, but he seems to have been primarily a designer for books and greeting cards. See all items with this value; He is also referenced in A.W. Coysh's "The dictionary of picture postcards in Britain, 1894-1939" as using the pseudonym "Hamish" for postcard designs. It is unknown if he used this pseudonym for his bookwork as well. See all items with this value; He designed book covers and title pages for a number of London or Edinburgh based publishers, including John Long, Sands & Co., and Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier.

Where his designs appear on books by American publishers, it is a repeat of the design used by the UK edition of that same book. As far as I know, he has not designed any covers specifically for American imprints. See all items with this value
lastName: Duncan
firstName: James Allan
Is Referenced By: "Mr. James Allan Duncan, Designer and Illustrator" in 'The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art' (1899, Vol 15, Page 184) See all items with this value; "The dictionary of picture postcards in Britain, 1894-1939" by A.W. Coysh, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England : Antique Collectors' Club, 1984. See all items with this value

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Items with "Cover designer: James Allan Duncan"
Title	Class
A sportswoman's love letters	Text
All the Winners	Text
An Outsider's Year	Text
Daybreak in Livingstonia; the story of the Livingstonia Mission, British Central Africa	Text
Dead Certainties	Text
English songs of the Georgian period	Text
Historic boys	Text
Homely hints on food and cooking, digestion and indigestion	Text
In the heart of the hills, or, The little preacher of the Pacific slope.	Text
London souvenirs	Text
No. 3 the Square	Text
Pick Me Ups	Text
Rose and chrysanthemum	Text
South Africa and the Transvaal war	Text
Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children	Text
Sweet "doll" of Haddon Hall	Text
Tales Of Indian Chivalry	Text
The British Empire At Home And Abroad	Text
The Chaser's Luck	Text
The Chiswick Shakespeare series	Text
The day-by-day cookery book	Text
The Lewis Carroll picture book	Text
The Magnetic Girl	Text
The minstrelsy of England	Text
The Open Air Boy	Text