Illustrations by Jean de Bosschère for The History of Don Quixote of De La Mancha (1922):
From the Cervantes Collection of the Cushing Memorial Library & Archives, my fourth dive into an endlessly-amazing resource. See all 86 images from the book.
I definitely plan to dig further into Jean de Bosschère‘s illustration, writing, and life. From his wiki entry:
In 1915 when the war broke out, he fled from Belgium and went to London where he met writers such as John Gould Fletcher, Aldous Huxley and D. H. Lawrence, and Imagist poets such as Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and Richard Aldington. He met several London publishers for whom he illustrated numerous books in the ’20s and ’30s. Among the books he illustrated were the poems of Oscar Wilde and Charles Baudelaire, but also erotic classic authors such as Aristophanes, Ovid, Strato and Apuleius.
Previously:
Tilting at Squiggles (Albert Dubout)
Tilting at Woodcuts 1 (Hermann-Paul)
Tilting at Woodcuts 2 (Enric C. Ricart)
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Most of the illustrations are unavailable, but the ones I do see are rad.
All better Christopher! Thanks for the heads up!
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