Edmund Ollier CASSELLS DORE GALLERY c1890 Decorative Leather & Gilt Binding 250 Engravings French Artist Printmaker Illustrator Wood Engraving Large Volume

Title: Cassell's Dore Gallery: Containing Two Hundred and Fifty Beautiful Engravings, Selected from the Dore Bible, Milton, Dante's Inferno, Dante's Pugatorio and Paradiso, Atala, Fontaine, Fairy Realm, Don Quixote, Baron Munchausen, Croquemitaine, &c. &c.
Author: Edmund Ollier - Edmund Ollier was an English journalist and author.
Publisher: Cassell Publishing Company
City: New York
Year: c1890
Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 152 pages, plus plates
Width: 10.5" Height: 13.5"
Book Details: This beautiful oversized volume is bound in blue leather with gilt ornamentation and lettering to the front board and spine, as well as full-edge gilt. The endpapers are of a heavy moiré-patterned paper. This work contains 250 full-page engravings of Dore’s work.

Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor who worked primarily with wood engraving.
Condition / Notes: This large antique volume shows well, with some typical indications of age and wear, including shelfwear and rubbing. The boards are detached, however, the spine and text block are intact and firm. Text and illustrations are clear and crisp through mild/moderate age toning.

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