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Dore Gallery His 120 Greatest Illustrations

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ISBN-10: 048640160X

ISBN-13: 9780486401607

Edition: N/A

Authors: Gustave Dor�, Carol Belanger Grafton

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Comprising the finest plates from the great illustrator’s work, this collection features outstanding engravings from such literary classics as Milton’s Paradise Lost, The Divine Comedy by Dante, Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, Sue’s The Wandering Jew, and many others. Captions.
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Book details

List price: $21.95
Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/24/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 11.97" wide x 8.98" long x 0.31" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Paul Gustave Dor� (January 6, 1832 to January 23, 1883) was a French artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor. Dor� worked primarily with wood engraving and steel engraving. In 1853, Dor� was asked to illustrate the works of Lord Byron. This commission was followed by additional work for British publishers, including a new illustrated English Bible. A decade later, he illustrated a French edition of Cervantes's Don Quixote, and his depictions of the knight and his squire, Sancho Panza, have become so famous that they have influenced subsequent readers, artists, and stage and film directors' ideas of the physical "look" of the two characters. He continued to illustrate books until…