Golden Age Book Illustrations

The best of late 19th and early 20th Century illustrators

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"Salammbô with the sacred python." Illustration by Suzanne-Raphaële Lagneau (1928), for 'Salammbô' by Gustave Flaubert.

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'The Elf Robbery ' by Alexander Hubert Von Volborth, 1912.

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'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' illustrated by George Barbier, 1934.

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'The Queen of Tides ' by Pamela Colman Smith, 1907

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'Thor and the Midgard ' from 'Stories from the Edda ' illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1910.

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'Knights of Charlemagne' by Henry Pitz

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'Phoenix through the Flanes ' by Daria Hlazatova.

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Illustration by Dorothy P. Lathrop, for Walter de la Mare's "The Three Mulla- Mulgars", 1919

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'Moon Fairies ' by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, (1880 -1960).

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"Fire-Flies" (1935) by Lois Mailou Jones. From The Picture Poetry Book.

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'Joan of Arc before the Dauphin Charles' ,illustrated by Kay Nielsen, 1914.

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The Fairy King and Queen watch the midnight dance. Lighted by glow-worms, fairies were dancing. From Peter and the Princess by John R. Neill, 1920.

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'The Little People of the Garden ' by Ruth O. Dyer, illustrated by L. J. Bridgman, 1922.

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Harry Clarke illustration for Goethe's 'Faust ', 1925.

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'Europa and the Bull ' by Virginia Frances Sterrett, 1931

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Gordon Ertz (1891-1962), ''The Inland Printer'', March 1916

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Emeralda and Psyche, from Louis Couperus' Psyche by Bernard Reith (1927)