Title: The Doré Gallery: Containing Two Hundred and Fifty Beautiful Engravings, Selected from the Doré Bible, Milton, Dante’s Inferno, Dante’s Purgatorio and Paradiso, Atala, Fontaine, Fairy Realm, Don Quixote, Baron Munchausen, Croquemitaine, &c. &c. With memoir of Doré, Critical Essay, and Descriptive Letterpress Author: Ollier, Edmund Place: London Publisher: Cassel, Petter & Galpin Date: [c1870-1880] Description: 2 volumes. xxiv, [3]-94; [95]-180 pp. + plates. Illustrated with 250 wood-engraved plates with printed tissue-guards. (Folio) 14¼x11, full polished brown calf, bordered and ruled in gilt and blind, spines tooled in gilt, green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Terrific views of Doré's best work, collected from his classic illustrated works of fine literature. Lot Amendments Condition: Some rubbing and scratching to bindings, heavier on spine of Vol. 1 and front cover of Vol. 2; occasional light foxing; overall very good. Item number: 188184
Title: The Doré Gallery: Containing Two Hundred and Fifty Beautiful Engravings, Selected from the Doré Bible, Milton, Dante’s Inferno, Dante’s Purgatorio and Paradiso, Atala, Fontaine, Fairy Realm, Don Quixote, Baron Munchausen, Croquemitaine, &c. &c. With memoir of Doré, Critical Essay, and Descriptive Letterpress Author: Ollier, Edmund Place: London Publisher: Cassel, Petter & Galpin Date: [c1870-1880] Description: 2 volumes. xxiv, [3]-94; [95]-180 pp. + plates. Illustrated with 250 wood-engraved plates with printed tissue-guards. (Folio) 14¼x11, full polished brown calf, bordered and ruled in gilt and blind, spines tooled in gilt, green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Terrific views of Doré's best work, collected from his classic illustrated works of fine literature. Lot Amendments Condition: Some rubbing and scratching to bindings, heavier on spine of Vol. 1 and front cover of Vol. 2; occasional light foxing; overall very good. Item number: 188184
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