Gustave Doré, The Doré Bible Gallery [ca. 1904]

Format: 30 cm.

Volume: 100 full-page illustrated plates outside the pagination, each with a separate page of explanatory text.

Binding: publisher’s binding, period cloth (early 20th century), cover decorated with deep blind embossing and gilding, gilt edges, slightly worn corners.

An album containing one hundred engravings by Gustave Doré for the Old and New Testaments (originally published in 1866), each with an explanatory text on the facing page. It was published by the Philadelphia-based National Publishing Co., which specialized in large subscription books for home libraries. Doré’s illustrations, with their strong chiaroscuro and monumental composition, are considered classics of 19th-century book illustration.

There is an old dedication in ink on the front endpaper.

This item is from the 18th Polish Antiquarian Book Auction.