Literary Haven

Antique book art

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“But there was no voice throughout the vast, illimitable desert.”  Portrait illustration by Harry Clarke, for Edgar Allan Poe’s book, Tales of Mystery and Imagination.

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“That girl, as you call her, is my wife.”  Color process illustration by Gordon Browne, for Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, The Pavilion on the Links, published in 1913.

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“The jackal . . . opened his bundle of betel leaves, put some into his mouth, and began chewing them.”  Color process illustration by Warwick Goble, for the children’s book, Folk-Tales of Bengal, published by Macmillan and Company in 1912.

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From my window.  Wood engraving by Joseph Swain, based on the artwork of Frederick Sandys, for the periodical, Once a Week, volume 5, published in 1861.

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Geldberg’s daughters.  Metal engraving by Jules Roze, based on the artwork of Pierre Edouard Frere, for the book, Le Fils du Diable, written by Paul Feval in 1852.

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The Parasol.  Portrait illustration by Paul Helleu for the book, Paul Helleu, Peintre et Graveur, written by Robert Montesquiou and published in 1913.

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“The startled swarm came streaming out

In temper hot and baneful,

And drove the foe in awful rout,

With volleys sharp and painful.”

Color process illustration by Peter Newell, for his children’s book, The Hole Book, published about 1908 by Harper & Brothers.

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“Illuminating . . . the dusky mirror.”  Color process illustration by Hugh Thomson for a 1920 edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter.

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Indian No. 6.  Color lithograph by Francis Bedford, for the book, The Grammar of Ornament, written by Owen Jones.  Published in 1868.

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“The maid-of-honor blooming fair:

The page has caught her hand in his:

Her lips are sever’d, as to speak:

His own are pouted to a kiss:

The blush is fix’d upon her cheek.”

Wood engraving by an unknown artist for Lord Alfred Tennyson’s book, The Day Dream, published in 1886 by E. P. Dutton & Co.

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Satisfaction.  Lithograph by Jean Georges Frey, based on the artwork of Jean Gigoux, for the periodicalL’Artiste, published about 1833.

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The Black-Crested Chickadee.  Color lithograph by George Gorgas White, for John Cassin’s book, Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America, published in 1862.

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Helias, the Knight of the Swan.  Wood engraving by an unknown artist for the book, Germania’s Sagenborn, published in 1889.

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“She went to the cobbler’s, 

To buy him some shoes, 

But when she came back

He was reading the news.”

Wood engraving by the Dalziel Brothers, based on the artwork of an unknown artist.  From Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes, published in 1877 by George Rutledge & Sons, London.

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Primula Auricula.  Metal engraving by Victor, based on the artwork of Pierre-Joseph Redoute, for the book, Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs et des Plus Beaux Fruits, published about 1830.

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“When buds are breaking and birds singing merrily, dance with me.”  Portrait illustration by Dugald Steward Walker for his book, Dream Boats and Other Stories, published in 1920.

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Opening illustration for the story, Adventures in Skitzland, contained in the book, The Chicken Market and Other Fairy Tales, written by Henry Morley.  The illustration is a wood engraving by the Dalziel brothers, based on the artwork of Charles Henry Bennett.