The Doré Gallery: Containing Two Hundred and Fifty Beautiful Engravings, Selected from the Doré Bible, Milton, Dante’s Inferno, Dante’s Purgatorio and Paradiso, Atala, Fontaine, Fairy Realm, Don Quixote, Baron Munchausen, Croquemitaine, &c. &c. With memoir of Doré, Critical Essay, and Descriptive Letterpress -
Gustave Doré, Edmund Ollier
1870 - Cassell, London - First edition. Later issued in a smaller single volume.
Two impressive, large [39cm x 31cm] and heavy folio volumes containing 250 magnificent full page plates of Doré's powerful illustrations. Each with a descriptive letterpress and lettered tissue guards.
The ultimate child prodigy, Gustave Doré [1832-1883] was born in Strasbourg, moved to Paris at 15, and was the highest paid illustrator in France at the age of 16. His illustrations and Dante's Divine Comedy have become so intimately connected that even today, nearly 150 years after their initial publication, the artist's rendering of the poet's text still determines our vision of the Commedia. Doré's illustrations for Cervantes's Don Quixote, and his depictions of the knight and his squire, Sancho Panza, have become so famous that they have influenced subsequent readers, artists, and stage and film directors' ideas of the physical "look" of the two characters. His 238 Bible engravings were by far the most popular set of illustrations ever done for the bible, used for nearly 1,000 different editions. In contemporary full polished brown calf, bordered and ruled in gilt and blind, spines tooled in gilt, green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Condition: A very good to near fine set, with only occasional light foxing, and some rubbing to bindings slightly heavier on the spine of volume one. Overall a very nice example. Ref: 101627 Price: Please contact us for a price or general inquiries about this book
The ultimate child prodigy, Gustave Doré [1832-1883] was born in Strasbourg, moved to Paris at 15, and was the highest paid illustrator in France at the age of 16. His illustrations and Dante's Divine Comedy have become so intimately connected that even today, nearly 150 years after their initial publication, the artist's rendering of the poet's text still determines our vision of the Commedia. Doré's illustrations for Cervantes's Don Quixote, and his depictions of the knight and his squire, Sancho Panza, have become so famous that they have influenced subsequent readers, artists, and stage and film directors' ideas of the physical "look" of the two characters. His 238 Bible engravings were by far the most popular set of illustrations ever done for the bible, used for nearly 1,000 different editions. In contemporary full polished brown calf, bordered and ruled in gilt and blind, spines tooled in gilt, green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Condition: A very good to near fine set, with only occasional light foxing, and some rubbing to bindings slightly heavier on the spine of volume one. Overall a very nice example. Ref: 101627 Price: Please contact us for a price or general inquiries about this book