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"Beware of the person of one book."

— Thomas Aquinas

"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."

— P.J. O'Rourke

"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."

— Marcel Proust

"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."

— Groucho Marx

Gustave Doré | First Editions

1832 - 1882

Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator, and sculptor, working primarily with wood engraving. He was born in Strasbourg on 6 January 1832.

At the age of twelve, Doré began carving in cement. Three short years later, he began his career working as a caricaturist for the French paper Le Journal pour rire, and subsequently went on to win commissions to depict scenes from books by Rabelais, Balzac, Milton and Dante. This was to be the start of a hugely successful career, in which Doré would illustrate the works of Lord Byron, Edgar Allen Poe, Cervantes, Coleridge, Milton, a new illustrated Bible, and many other iconic works. He is now considered to be one of the great illustrators of the 19th century, and his images remain highly collectible.

See below our stock of Gustave Doré First Editions, fine bindings, and signed copies.