Edward J Illustrators (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers with minor wear at the spine extremities and a short closed tear on the rear panel. Complete issue. A.B. Frost, F.D. Millet, and other illustrators (illustrator).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. very good hardcover, very good dust jacket. Frost, Arthur Burdette; Church, Frederick Stuart; Conde, J. M.; Kemble, Edward Windsor; Beard, William Holbrook [illustrators] (illustrator).

560 pages. Hardcover; H 22.75cm x L 15.5cm. Original green cloth mildly mottled, gilt stamping upon spine and front board remains bright, nicks and slight fraying at spine ends, beveled board edges lightly scuffed at corners, small surface cloth loss at front board's bottom right corner, several small patches of cloth loss at joint. Binding is firm. Edges toned; occasional light to mild foxing on interior pages; antiquarian ink gift inscription dated July 1870 in front flyleaf. Total of 12 b/w plates (including frontispiece) with all but one retaining tissue guards and all on unpaged leaves with the illustrations by J.M.W. Turner [Joseph Mallord William Turner], Jean Portaels, Edward Moran, Joseph John, John Martin, and Gustave Dore. A very good- copy. Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 3.25 pounds and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Book Club Edition. This Is A FACTORY SEALED Folio Society Book : First Published In 1999 : This Copy Is The 13th. Printing 2009 Edition : Another Stunning Book From Folio : Lovely White Cloth Binding With Gilt Titles To The Front Cover & Back-Strip : The Cover Design Is By , ' DAVID ECCLES ' : Redrawn From An Original By , ' DETMOLD ' : The Book Illustrations Are By , ' EDWARD J. DETMOLD ' : Very Thick Book : The Pages Must Be Approx . 130 microns . : Also Quite Heavy : Includes A Lovely Red Slip-Case , Just To Finish It Of : Fabulous . …

First Edition. "Beauty That Hath Terror in It" The Detmold Brothers' Sublime and Unsettling Vision of The Jungle Book KIPLING, Rudyard. DETMOLD, Maurice & Edward J., illustrators. Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling's "Jungle Book" by Messrs. Maurice & Edward Detmold. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1903. First edition. Folio (21 3/8 x 15 1/2 inches; 543 x 394 mm.). Title page, contents leaf and sixteen fine colored prints tipped onto white board with gray window mounts, each with a cover sheet providing the title and a short extract from the text. Title-page and list of illustrations expertly repaired at fold, second plate description with short marginal tear, some light foxing to text and mounts only - the plates clean and fresh. Housed in the publisher's green cloth portfolio, front cover lettered and with illustration in gilt, one of two original green silk ties. An excellent example of the Detmold's finest work. Rendered in the rich colors characteristic of the Detmolds' artwork, the plates in this portfolio far surpass the later small book edition published five years later, whose reproductions appear comparatively muted. Considered among the finest book illustrations of all time, R. Dalby notes: "These paintings were praised for their realistic detail and decorative arrangement," while Diana Johnson intriguingly observes: "The end result of this incongruous joining together of the quasi-scientific and the ornamental is an image which is both fanciful and often rather disturbing." Published when the Detmold twins were only twenty years old, this portfolio was their final collaboration before Maurice's tragic suicide in 1908. Because the illustrations closely resemble original artwork when framed, many individual plates were separated from their sets, making a complete portfolio a rare find today. The sixteen plates in Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling's Jungle Book represent the Detmold brothers at the absolute height of their early powers, combining natural history accuracy with a highly personal, imaginative symbolism. Executed when Maurice Detmold and Edward J. Detmold were only twenty, the images reveal an astonishing maturity of design, color harmony, and psychological insight. Across the series, animals are rendered with an almost zoological precision - musculature, fur, scale, and movement observed with scientific care - yet the compositions are unmistakably poetic and stylized. Wolves stand with hieratic gravity; panthers and tigers possess an elegance that borders on the mythic; serpents coil with hypnotic inevitability. These are not merely illustrations of stories by Rudyard Kipling, but visual interpretations that deepen and at times darken the emotional tenor of the text. Several plates focus on Mowgli himself, depicted as a lithe, vulnerable yet resolute figure, often isolated against vast, spare landscapes. His nudity is treated without sentimentality: the Detmolds emphasize his animal belonging rather than childhood innocence, reinforcing the central tension of The Jungle Book - the precarious boundary between human and beast. In scenes with Bagheera, Baloo, and Akela, the animals are endowed with a quiet authority, their gazes expressive and morally charged, suggesting intellect and memory rather than simple instinct. The Monkey People, shown amid cold stone lairs and architectural fragments, are among the most unsettling inventions in the set: simian forms twisted into almost grotesque attitudes, animated by restless, purposeless energy. By contrast, the great predators - Shere Khan especially - are portrayed with a terrible beauty: powerful, controlled, and ominously calm, embodying what the Manchester Guardian aptly described as "that beauty which hath terror in it." Color plays a central role throughout. The Detmolds employ a restrained but sumptuous palette - burnished browns, smoky grays, deep greens, and muted ochres - heightened by subtle tonal transitions rather than overt brilliance. …