1887 Gustave Doré Masterpieces Illustrated Dante Bible Milton Fontaine Quixote

1887 Gustave Doré Masterpieces Illustrated Dante Bible Milton Fontaine Quixote

“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 supreme examples of the illustrator’s art! This first edition, compiled by Edmund Ollier, features 78 engraved plates.

Item number: #6842

Price: $399

OLLIER, Edmund

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

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages

o   Unpaginated

o   78 full-page, Gustave Doré engravings

• Language: English
• Binding: Cloth; tight and secure
• Size: ~11.5in X 9.5in (29.5cm x 24.5cm)

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