1887 1ed Dore Masterpieces Illustrated Dante Bible Milton Fontaine Quixote Fairy

DORE, Gustave

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“The most popular and successful French book illustrator of the mid-19th century!”

 

Famous French artist, Gustave Doré was most known for his incredible woodcut engravings. Doré’s romantic style of illustration, supremely imaginative and richly detailed, was ideally suited to literary subjects. Artists and art lovers will find in these pages’ superb examples of the illustrator’s art! This first edition, compiled by Edmund Ollier, of Dore’s ‘Masterpieces’ features 80 engraved plates.

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1887 1ed Dore Masterpieces Illustrated Dante Bible Milton Fontaine Quixote Fairy

 

“The most popular and successful French book illustrator of the mid-19th century!”

 

Famous French artist, Gustave Doré was most known for his incredible woodcut engravings. Doré’s romantic style of illustration, supremely imaginative and richly detailed, was ideally suited to literary subjects. Artists and art lovers will find in these pages’ superb examples of the illustrator’s art! This first edition, compiled by Edmund Ollier, of Dore’s ‘Masterpieces’ features 80 engraved plates.

 

Item number: #21590

Price: $550

 

DORE, Gustave

 

Masterpieces from the works of Gustave Doré: selected from the Doré Bible, Milton, Dante’s Inferno, Dante’s Purgatorio and Paradiso, Fontaine, Fairy Realm, Don Quixote, Baron Munchausen, Croquemitaine, etc., etc.: with memoir of Doré and descriptive letterpress

 

New York: Cassell Publishing Company, ©1887. First edition

 

Details:

  • Collation: Complete with all pages
    • Unpaginated
    • 80 full-page, Gustave Doré engravings
  • Provenance: Handwritten – Henry George Duerfeldt
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Hardcover; secure
    • Decorative brown cloth
  • Size: ~12in X 9.75in (30cm x 24.5cm)

 

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21590

Category

Arts & Architecture

Authors

DORE, Gustave

Printing Date

19th Century

Language

English

Binding

Hardcover

Book Condition

Excellent

Collation

Complete