Frances Emerson Judd. The Owls, Eve and Other Poems. Marshalltown, Webster and Burkart, 1888.
The Art of Book Design: The Owls, Eve and Other Poems
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Frances Emerson Judd. The Owls, Eve and Other Poems. Marshalltown, Webster and Burkart, 1888.
Canoe and Camp Cookery: A Practical Cookbook for Canoeists, Corinthian Sailors and outers. New York, Forest and Stream Pub. Co., 1885
via: The Internet Archive
John Harington Keene. Fishing Tackle. London, New York; Ward, Lock, 1886. First Edition.
Cover photo via: Abe Books
Available to read at The Internet Archive
Richard Le Gallienne. The Romance of Zion Chapel. Cover designed by Will Bradley. London and New York; John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1898.
via: The Internet Archive
Nathaniel Hawthorne. Tanglewood Tales. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. London, New York, Toronto; Hodder and Stoughton, 1919
This Fairy Tale Saturday we’re looking at Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Tanglewood Tales again. We’ve already looked at the 1921 edition of the book with artwork by Virginia Sterrett and today we’re looking at an earlier edition with artwork done by Edmund Dulac. Dulac was a master illustrator of books during the art nouveau period and he is considered to be one of the masters of the style.
This week we have another fine fungal photo from Opus, who makes magic happen with his detailed macro portraits. He’s also sent us a photo to give some perspective and scale to the close-up work.
Opus plans to nurse the garden along for a bit and then return it to the wild.
Moss Garden ©Opus, all rights reserved
Moss Garden – overview ©Opus, all rights reserved
Edgar Allen Poe. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. London : G. G. Harrup ; New York : Brentano’s, 1919.
Here’s Marcus again and he’s holding his first edition copy of Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination, illustrated by Harry Clark. Clarke was another of Caine’s favourite artists and many of the drawings that follow have previously been seen on this blog. Clarke’s illustrations in Poe’s Tales of Mystery are considered the best of any edition produced. According to the Public Domain Review:
…perhaps it is the Irishman Harry Clarke who has come closest to evoking the delirious claustrophobia and frightening inventiveness of “Poe-land”. For the 1919 edition of Tales Clarke created the twenty-four monochrome images featured below. Their nightmarish, hallucinatory quality makes you wonder if he was on something, until you remember the stories.
I couldn’t agree more. All 24 full-sized illustrations are included below the fold.
Illustrations via: The Public Domain Review
The 1923 edition of the book can be viewed at The Internet Archive. This edition includes 4 colour plates that were not part of the original 1919 edition. I haven’t included them here. They’re worth taking a look at and so are the smaller page illustrations.
R.D.Blackmore. Fringilla or Tales in Verse. Illustrated by Will Bradley. Cleveland. The Burrows Brothers Company, 1895.
Fringilla, Illustrated by Will Bradley. Back Cover.
Will Bradley was considered the “Dean of American Designers” during the Art Nouveau and Art Deco Periods and he was the best paid American artist of the early 20th Century. Much of Bradley’s work was for magazine covers, advertising and posters, but his illustrations for this book, Fringilla, were considered to be among his masterworks. All the full-sized illustrations are below the fold.
Charles Beaudelaire. Flowers of Evil. Translated by C. Bower Alcock. Illustrated by Beresford Egan. New York, Sylvan Press, 1947.
Flowers of Evil, illustrated by Beresford Egan, Title Page
Flowers of Evil, Illustrations by Beresford Egan, Page 35
Flowers of Evil, Illustrations by Beresford Egan, Page 45
The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs de Mal) by Beaudelaire was one of Caine’s favourite books and a special edition of it was gifted to her by Marcus. (stderr) The edition that she received was printed in limited quantities in 1947 with artwork by Beresford Egan and that’s Marcus in the first picture holding a copy of the same book he sent to Caine. The next 2 photos are Marcus displaying 2 of the interior plates to the book. Caine published several illustrations from the book on the blog and always noted how much she enjoyed the exaggerated forms and dark, macabre style of Egan. I’ve included the rest of the illustrations in the book below the fold.
Illustrations via: Retro Sixty, Modern British Art
There are several other editions of this book available to read at The Internet Archive. If you desire to read this edition by Beresford Egan you will need to open an (free) account at The Internet Archive and formally borrow the book.
Oscar Wilde. Salome. Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. London : John Lane, the Bodley Head ; New York : John Lane Co., 1907.
Aubrey Beardsley was one of Caine’s favourite artists from the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods. Beardsley was commissioned directly by Oscar Wilde for this edition of Salome. Wilde felt that Beardsley’s modern, dark and macabre style captured the true spirit of the book.
I’ve included all the interior plates below the fold and they are deliciously grim and gruesome. The entire book can be viewed at The Internet Archive.
We’ve gotten some wonderful pictures of baby ravens from Anne, Cranky Cat Lady. Her daughter Emily Davis took the photos and Anne has been kind enough to share them with us.
…they run from the first time she spotted the nest through their fledging. They were still being fed by the parents at that point, even though they were almost adult-sized.
These are your basic Common Raven (Corvus corax), also known as the Northern Raven. The nest was in La Jolla, on the UC San Diego campus in Southern California
May 16/19, ©Emily Davis, all rights reserved
This week I’ll be featuring books with art that Caine would enjoy. This first book is in homage to Caine’s mastery and love of needlework.
The Miroir or Glasse of the Synneful Soul, copied in her own hand by Princess Elizabeth when just 11 years old (1544) and Presented to her stepmother Katherine Parr. Featured in English Embroidered Book-bindings (1899) – source
Nightjar has sent us her monthly look at the light conditions in her world and, as always, the photos are fabulous. Enjoy.
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