#books and art

“Rosalie saw before her eyes a tree of marvelous beauty.”  Color process illustration by Virginia Frances Sterrett for the book, Old French Fairy Tales, published about 1920.

“Ah ha!  You are at last in my domain, little fool!”  Color process illustration by Virginia Frances Sterrett, for the book, Old French Fairy Tales, published in 1920.

The flowery-kirtl’d naiades.  Color process illustration by Arthur Rackham for John Milton’s book, Comus, published in 1921.

“Violette consented willingly to pass the night in the forest.”  Color process illustration by Virginia Frances Sterrett for the book, Old French Fairy Tales, published about 1920.

“Lest a nightmare should come to the fairies’ cousin twice removed on their mother’s side.”  Color process illustration by Dugald Stewart Walker for his children’s book, Dream Boats and other Stories, published in 1920.

“She looked down upon our street.”  Portrait illustration by Charles Dana Gibson, for the novel, About Paris, written by Richard Harding Davis and published in 1895.

Bookplate etching by William Bell Scott for Poems Dramatic and Lyrical, by John Byrne Warren, published in 1893.  The artwork was designed and engraved by Scott as a gift to the author.

A Winter’s night.  Etching by William Hole for The Poetry of Robert Burns, Volume 1, published in 1896.

“Under her childish gaze, a wolf that had been taken alive in the Bohemian forest crawled fawning to her feet.”  Portrait illustration by William John Hennessy, for the book The Witch of Prague; A Fantastical Tale, published in 1901.

“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.

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

“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.

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

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

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.

“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.

Sparaxis & Ixia.  Lithograph by an unknown artist.  Found in the periodical, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de L’Europe, volume 2, published in 1846. 

“What was his amazement to find that the fountain was flowing over a maiden.”  Portrait illustration by Dugald Stewart Walker for his book, Dream Boats and Other Stories, published in 1920 by Doubleday, Page & Company.