FOLIO 1868 1st EDN GUSTAVE DORE ENGRAVINGS! IDYLLS OF THE KING GUENEVERE MERLIN!

Description: GUSTAVE DORE!!! SOME FEEL HIS MOST BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED BOOK!! DORE'S MASTERPIECE AND MOST SOUGHT AFTER WORK!! "IDYLLS OF THE KING" Comprising the text and plates of GUENEVERE, ELAINE, VIVIAN AND ENID!! 36 Large and Wonderful Arthurian Steel Engravings! (37 with the Frontispiece) The 1st Moxon Edition - with the plates in true 1st edition printed engravings from 1867 A HUGE BOOK IN AMAZING CONDITION!! Complete with the Original Gold / Gilt Binding!! The Sought after ORIGINAL 1868 1st Edition!! (NOT A MODERN REPRINT) WONDERFUL EXTREMELY RARE AND BEAUTIFUL!! A Phenomenally Huge and Heavy Book! ABSOLUTELY HUGE!! Nearly 17" Tall!!! This is an Original (Not a modern reprint) Edition of the classic GUSTAVE DORE illustrated Art Nouveau/Pre-Raphaelite/Victorian masterpiece!! "IDYLLS OF THE KING" A Classic Tale/Poem by ALFRED LORD TENNYSON!! THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER, AND DIFFICULT BOOK TO FIND BY DORE WITH THESE HUGE STEEL ENGRAVINGS!!!! Amazing Condition for its age and size! So many of these are absolutely wrecked because of their unwieldy size, and of course most have been split in order to frame the illustrations... This one is complete and as issued!! This beautifully illustrated book is one of the scarcest and most sought after of the Victorian/19th Century books ever printed! Amazing Illustrations!! HUGE STEEL ENGRAVINGS WITH NO FOXING!! Just Look at the Classic Illustrations that appears on this listing!!!!!! Extremely Sought After!! Complete!! NO MISSING ILLUSTRATIONS!! One of the most sought after Dore's ever published!!! It has excellent Art Nouveau / Pre-Raphaelite / Fairy Tale artwork!! WONDERFUL ENGRAVINGS BY GUSTAVE DORE!! Absolutely fantastic!! THIS IS GUSTAVE DORE AT HIS BEST!! Together with the Myths and Legends and Arthurian and Guinevere and the King Arthur and Holy Grailsubject, this makes this a book that is a real classic This is full of fabulous Illustrations!!! Look at the photographs to give you a feel for the amazing quality of these illustrations - the detail is fantastic! So many of these book are split up for their illustrations - this one is complete!! WONDERFUL!!! Dore was the most famous of French illustrators and it is easy to see why! By the age of 16 he was the highest paid illustrator in France!! ( making more per page than Honore Daumier made at the height of his career!) Doré is also one of the best kept secrets in Hollywood! His engravings were used in many classic films like King Kong, Great Expectations, and The Ten Commandments, as well as many recent films like Amistat, Seven & What Dreams may Come. Some of the books he has illustrated include:The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dante’s Divine Comedy, Perrault’s Fairy Tales ,Milton’s Paradise Lost, Don Quixote by Cervantes, The Bible & Many, many other famous volumes! His drawings of London done in 1869-71 captured the attention of Vincent Van Gogh In the 1870s he also took up painting & sculpture (the monument to the Alexandre Dumas in Paris is his work) Gilt edged pages!!! Gustav Dore was of course greatly influenced by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Holman Hunt, Edward Burne-Jones, Tadema, Waterhouse of course greatly influenced Edmund Dulac, Warwick Goble, Kay Nielsen, Florence Harrison, Mabel Lucy Attwell, and desired by many collectors of Aubrey Beardsley, Charles Ricketts, Edward Burne Jones, William Morris and the Kelmscott Press, James McNeill Whistler, Will Bradley, Walter Crane, Louis Rhead, Paul Berthon, Privat Livemont, Alphonse Mucha and others who illustrated posters printed by Maitres de L'Affiche, also Laurence Housman, Charles Rene Mackintosh and the Glasgow School of Art, Talwin Morris, Katherine Cameron, C.R. Ashbee, Charles Robinson, Edmund Sullivan, Anning Bell, Harry Clarke, Eric Gill and many, many others - and is regarded by many as the master of book illustration. This complete illustrated book is in Very Good condition - especially compared to the very few that have survived the nearly 160 years - Beautiful Throughout! - see Photo's, So rare to see it at all!! Stunning Condition! The binding a little worn and marked - a little staining to very edges of a few pages - not affecting the illustrations or text - The Illustrations are BEAUTIFUL!! NO CREASES TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS AT ALL!! A great addition to the quality illustrated book collection and a wonderful opportunity to obtain this Rare 1st and Rarest Dore 1st edition at a LOW RESERVE!! CHECK OUT MY OTHER AUCTIONS FOR OTHER INTERESTING ILLUSTRATED ART NOUVEAU / ARTS AND CRAFTS BOOKS!! The successful bidder to pay $24.95 media shipping - International extra. Sales Tax might be collected by Ebay for your State.

Price: 1495.95 USD

Location: Mona, Utah

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