I sometimes follow Suzanne's lead and check out the recent Project Gutenburg publications.
Most of the time I'm disappointed with the quality of the illustrations but I was pleasantly surprised today to find great images in Stories from Hans [Christian] Andersen with Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. First published 1911.
A modest set of Dulac covers. I'll probably come back and do a more extensive post on Dulac sometime in the future. Nice work.
I don't know much about Dulac but those images are quite interesting!
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ReplyDeleteCheers Laura - this was a lazy post - plus I wanted to give Project Gutenburg a plug of its own so to speak.
Welcome to the blogger front page. :) (Go to the blog editor).
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I love your page, that art seems really incredible.
Rockets
PS I love the alchemist at the bottom. I was once like that myself, in the basement with all types of bottles and mixtures.
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Project Gutenberg is a wonderful site. Just the other day I rounded up a number of great works I'm now reading piecemeal. Fascinating selection of images, too.
ReplyDeleteThanks for taking the time to share...
ReplyDeletecool blog
ReplyDeleteI really like the artwork...wonderful imagery!
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Very nice, I love Hans Christian Anderson's illustrations. Thanks for the "lazy" post. Can I link to your post?
ReplyDeleteI love art. This is absolutely nice!
ReplyDeleteI really love Andersen's stories, but never thought about their illustrator, really nice artwork, excellent blog
ReplyDeletethese images are so amazing and impressive.....
ReplyDeleteGreat images! VERY interesting!
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ditto with SF Photorama ;)
ReplyDeleteThese illustrations reinforces the fact that sometimes "fairy tales" weren't all happy endings and sweetness and light like Disney paints them.
ReplyDeleteThese are fantastic--are you using a scanner or are you uploading these from somewhere? Are you editing them before posting?
ReplyDeletethanks for the dulac
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone.
ReplyDeleteslskenyon, I am merely a web repository sifter and can only admire those that scan and upload.
Sometimes I do a little background cleanup of stains and library stamps. I will regularly sharpen images, particularly when I reduce the image size before uploading.
I mostly remember to announce any image manipulations in the post, but some/most are very inconsequential and there is always a link to the primary source anyway.
(All done in MSPaint +/- Irfanview)
Nothing else is done to them (except when I rarely play with the small linked images in the sidebar - for my own amusement).