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 by Edmund Ollier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doré, Gustave, 1832-1883, illustrator.

Contributor:

Ollier, Edmund, 1827-1886, editor.

Rudolph, Robert I., M.D., former owner.

Cassell, Petter & Galpin, publisher.

Robert I. Rudolph Collection of Gustave Doré (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Doré, Gustave, 1832-1883.

Doré, Gustave.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Inferno--Illustrations.

Dante Alighieri.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Paradiso--Illustrations.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Purgatorio--Illustrations.

Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost--Illustrations.

Milton, John.

La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695. Fables--Selections--Illustrations.

La Fontaine, Jean de.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote--Illustrations.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de.

Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848. Atala--Illustrations.

Chateaubriand, François-René.

Quatrelles, 1826-1893. Légende de Croque-Mitaine--Illustrations.

Quatrelles.

Penn Provenance:

Rudolph, Robert I., M.D. (donor) (Rudolph Doré Collection of Gustave Doré copy)

Physical Description:

xxiv, [1], 4-180 pages, 250 leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 39 cm

Place of Publication:

London ... ; and ... New York : Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, [1870]

Notes:

Preface dated at end: November, 1870.

Plates (illustrations) with printed guard sheets.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Rudolph Doré Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Robert I. Rudolph, M.D., C’67, M’71, GME’75.

Rudolph Doré Collection copy: plates 188 and 195 bound in each other's place.

OCLC:

1112464437