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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.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel.
London: The Folio Society, 2019. [Satirical Novels] LIMITED EDITION, FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Folio (38 x 28cm), pp.xxviii; 454 [6]; pp.xii; 455-949 [5]. A modern translation with Dore's original in-text wood engravings. Number 169 of 500 copies thus, typeset in Bulmer and printed on Abbey Pure Paper at..... More
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