Author: DETMOLD, Maurice & Edward J., illustrators; KIPLING, Rudyard
Title: Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling's "Jungle Book
Description: London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1903. Maurice and Edward Detmold's Sixteen lllustrations of Subjects from Kipling's "Jungle Book Full of character, subtle observation, and invention 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. A report on the publication in the New York Times for 5 December 1903 stated that "the edition is strictly limited to 500 copies for England and America". This portfolio is a magnificent presentation of the Detmold brothers' celebrated book illustrations. Reviewing the London exhibition of the original artwork, the Manchester Guardian commented that the Detmolds "are able to prevent their work from ever sinking to the level of mere illustration". The reviewer enthused that "the drawing of the Monkey People in the Cold Lairs who 'were not thinking of Mowgli's friends at all' is full of character, subtle observation, and invention. The figure of Bagheera in 'Mowgli and the Red Flower' has something of that beauty which hath terror in it. Baloo and Nag, Kaa and Akela the lone wolf are brought before our eyes in a singularly convincing and engaging form". Manchester Guardian, 5 November 1903. .
Keywords: KIPLING, Rudyard Illustrated Books Books into Film Nineteenth-Century Literature Limited Editions
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Title: Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling's "Jungle Book
Description: London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1903. Maurice and Edward Detmold's Sixteen lllustrations of Subjects from Kipling's "Jungle Book Full of character, subtle observation, and invention 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. A report on the publication in the New York Times for 5 December 1903 stated that "the edition is strictly limited to 500 copies for England and America". This portfolio is a magnificent presentation of the Detmold brothers' celebrated book illustrations. Reviewing the London exhibition of the original artwork, the Manchester Guardian commented that the Detmolds "are able to prevent their work from ever sinking to the level of mere illustration". The reviewer enthused that "the drawing of the Monkey People in the Cold Lairs who 'were not thinking of Mowgli's friends at all' is full of character, subtle observation, and invention. The figure of Bagheera in 'Mowgli and the Red Flower' has something of that beauty which hath terror in it. Baloo and Nag, Kaa and Akela the lone wolf are brought before our eyes in a singularly convincing and engaging form". Manchester Guardian, 5 November 1903. .
Keywords: KIPLING, Rudyard Illustrated Books Books into Film Nineteenth-Century Literature Limited Editions
Price: US$ 6000.00 Seller: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
- Book number: 06188
- Book number: 06188
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