Author: FELL, H. GRANVILLE.
Title: The Song of Solomon; with twelve full page plates and various other decorations by H. Granville Fell.
Description: Square Octavo; sixteen pages of text, each facing an extraordinary full- page tissue guarded illustration by H. Granville Fell. Frontispiece, pictorial title-page and colophon as well as beautiful head and tail pieces throughout by this masterful artist, binding cream buckram with elaborate gilt upper board decorated to a Granville Fell design (and stamped with his initials); minor browning to the rear board, endpapers a little browned, otherwise a very good copy. London, Chapman and Hall, 1897. Granville Fell (1872 - 1951), artist and journalist who went on to edit George Newnes Art Journal and subsequently became art editor of The Ladies Field in 1907, and The Strand Magazine in 1910. "Strongly influenced by the late Burne-Jones, his pencil studies of The Song of Solomon, reproduced in half-tone, have more of the quality of Alphonse Mucha and international art nouveau" (S. Houfe). The work was also published in the same year by the Guild of Women Bookbinders in an edition of 100 copies on Japon vellum.
Keywords: Art Nouveau Illustrations Granville H. Fell bindings
Title: The Song of Solomon; with twelve full page plates and various other decorations by H. Granville Fell.
Description: Square Octavo; sixteen pages of text, each facing an extraordinary full- page tissue guarded illustration by H. Granville Fell. Frontispiece, pictorial title-page and colophon as well as beautiful head and tail pieces throughout by this masterful artist, binding cream buckram with elaborate gilt upper board decorated to a Granville Fell design (and stamped with his initials); minor browning to the rear board, endpapers a little browned, otherwise a very good copy. London, Chapman and Hall, 1897. Granville Fell (1872 - 1951), artist and journalist who went on to edit George Newnes Art Journal and subsequently became art editor of The Ladies Field in 1907, and The Strand Magazine in 1910. "Strongly influenced by the late Burne-Jones, his pencil studies of The Song of Solomon, reproduced in half-tone, have more of the quality of Alphonse Mucha and international art nouveau" (S. Houfe). The work was also published in the same year by the Guild of Women Bookbinders in an edition of 100 copies on Japon vellum.
Keywords: Art Nouveau Illustrations Granville H. Fell bindings
Price: AUD 800.00 = appr. US$ 553.50 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 101667
- Book number: 101667