Definition: Works consisting of photographs, prints, drawings, portraits, plates, diagrams, facsimiles, maps, tables, or other representations or systematic arrangements of data designed to elucidate or decorate the contents of a publication. (From The ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science, 1983, p114)
this heading is used as a Publication Type. Used by catalogers only. Book illustrations as a subject are indexed under the main heading BOOKS, ILLUSTRATED
See AlsoPictorial Works ExamplesCaricatures; Drawings; Maps