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Edward Detmold, Illustrator
Fabre's Book of Insects
New York Tudor Publishing Co. 1939 Green cloth, gilt titles and decoration to both the front cover and the spine. Dyed green top edge. With 12 mounted color plates and captioned tissues. Fine/VG+ in protective wrapper.Bookseller Inventory # 027 Price: $200.00
Fabre's Book of Insects
New York Tudor Publishing Co. 1939 Green cloth, gilt titles and decoration to both the front cover and the spine. Dyed green top edge. With 12 mounted color plates and captioned tissues. Fine/VG+ in protective wrapper.Bookseller Inventory # 027 Price: $200.00
Edward Detmold, Illustrator
The Arabian Nights: Bookman Portfolio Xmas 1924
London: Hodder and Stoughton 4to, (8X13 in) Grey linen covers containing three loose sheets with tipped-in illustrations by E.J. Detmold from The Arabian Nights (see scanned images this listing) Each year Hodder and Stoughton included this loose portfolio as a part of their December issue of The Bookman. This item is Portfolio only. Very little browning around edges of covers. A FINE copy. Rare. Inventory# 228 Price: US$¬ 380.00 ¬
The Arabian Nights: Bookman Portfolio Xmas 1924
London: Hodder and Stoughton 4to, (8X13 in) Grey linen covers containing three loose sheets with tipped-in illustrations by E.J. Detmold from The Arabian Nights (see scanned images this listing) Each year Hodder and Stoughton included this loose portfolio as a part of their December issue of The Bookman. This item is Portfolio only. Very little browning around edges of covers. A FINE copy. Rare. Inventory# 228 Price: US$¬ 380.00 ¬
Edward Detmold, Illustrator
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS: Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
Folio Society, London, 2003. Hardcover in Slipcase. In original publisher's shrinkwrap. 4to viii, + 239pp., color-art frontis, plus 11 brilliant illustrations. Unpaginated. White buckram, gilt decorated [illustration redrawn by David Eccles after the Edward J. Detmold original design] boards undamaged. Plain, red-papered slipcase. Inventory # 7534 Price $110
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS: Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
Folio Society, London, 2003. Hardcover in Slipcase. In original publisher's shrinkwrap. 4to viii, + 239pp., color-art frontis, plus 11 brilliant illustrations. Unpaginated. White buckram, gilt decorated [illustration redrawn by David Eccles after the Edward J. Detmold original design] boards undamaged. Plain, red-papered slipcase. Inventory # 7534 Price $110
Edward Detmold, Illustrator
The Book of Baby Birds (not shown)
London, Hodder & Stoughton [c 1912] 1st. 4to,120 pp. 1.5 in thick. Cloth-backed boards with circular picture of a baby bird above Titles. 19 tipped-in plates on linen paper. Text writ large. Boards rubbed and some soiling of covers. Spine has tears both sides 4.5 inches down but remains in tact. Interior Fine. Bookseller Inventory # 315
Price: US$¬ 330.00
The Book of Baby Birds (not shown)
London, Hodder & Stoughton [c 1912] 1st. 4to,120 pp. 1.5 in thick. Cloth-backed boards with circular picture of a baby bird above Titles. 19 tipped-in plates on linen paper. Text writ large. Boards rubbed and some soiling of covers. Spine has tears both sides 4.5 inches down but remains in tact. Interior Fine. Bookseller Inventory # 315
Price: US$¬ 330.00
"It may interest the public to know that the illustrations for Birdland are the work of two boys, twin brothers, now fifteen years of age. I do not mention the age of these young artists by way of apology, but rather by way of interest, for the work presented is remarkable enough for artists of maturer years. In the Autumn of 1897 some half-a-doxen bird drawings by M. and E. Detmold were shewn to Mr J.M. Dent, and he was so struck with their merit that he commissioned the two brothers to complete a book for him with coloured illustrations. The first idea was to bring out an Alphabet of Birds, but eventually "Pictures from Birdland" was chosen as a title, and thus a wider scope of subject was permissible" (Preface). "Dent was so struck with the merit of the Detmolds' work that he commissioned them also to complete a book of colored illustrations. This book, Pictures from Birdland, published in 1899, is remarkable in many ways. Particularly noticeable are the early influences in the paintings, Edward's design for an osprey, with its unusual water effects, testifying to a Japanese contribution. Already apparent is that style in which a searching study of natural forms, especially bird plumage, is subordinated to decorative arrangement" (David Larkin, The Fantastic Creatures of Edward Julius Detmold)
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Edward Detmold, Illustrator
The Fables of Aesop
London: The Folio Society 2006 : 8th printing. Full gold cloth stamped in red and green, a handsome facsimile of the original Hodder & Stoughton edition (1909) with 23 color plates and numerous line drawings. In Green slip case. New. Inventory # 7727 Price $75.00
The Fables of Aesop
London: The Folio Society 2006 : 8th printing. Full gold cloth stamped in red and green, a handsome facsimile of the original Hodder & Stoughton edition (1909) with 23 color plates and numerous line drawings. In Green slip case. New. Inventory # 7727 Price $75.00
Edward Detmold, Illustrator
The Fables of Aesop
The Fables of Aesop
NY: Hodder and Stoughton, (1909) First American edition, with English sheets. A legendary feat of illustration, the plates showing a remarkable intensity of image and expression. Sm 4to, orginal green buckram, spine and frontcover lettered and decorated in gilt, front cover pictorially stamped in black. xvi, 152 pp. + 23 color plates tipped onto captioned heavy gray paper. Small bookplate on pastedown. Spine and edges sun-faded; occasional foxing; else FINE. The American edition is xtremely rare. Inventory #7775 Price $1100.00