This collection focuses on the problems of book illustration. Famous artists, writers, art historians express their opinion about her. For the first time, excerpts from the diaries and letters of the Favorsky family are published, memories of the creation of the Engraving Cabinet of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, new materials about the book graphics of Matisse, Chagall, Chekhonin, etc., as well as about the Russian lubok.