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VIERGE, Daniel Urrabieta | GOSSE, Edmund SKU: 16442 Barcode:
Stock No. 16442
Authors: Daniel Urrabieta, VIERGE (illustrator - 1851-1904) | Edmund, GOSSE (1849-1928)
T. Fisher Unwin [1896]
New translation of Saint-Juirs original text entitled 'Cabinet des Trois Virtues'. Royal 4to (13 x 9.5 ins) pp xxx, 155, 1 unnumbered page, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates. With 60 illustrations by Vierge. Half-title and titlepage printed in red and black. Publisher's pinkish-brown cloth elaborately pattered in gilt swags with gilt title lettering to spine and set within a panel on the front board. Extremities of boards and corner tips rubbed. Top edge of the pages gilt. Scattered spots of foxing mainly to later pages. Printed in an edition limited to 650 copies. A clean and solid copy. Vierge was born in Madrid, but spent all his working life in France. He had an active early career illustrating events in the Franco-Prussian War and the third Carlist War. He also produced illustrations for works by Victor Hugo. However, in 1881 he suffered a paralysis to the right side of his body, which also affected his speech. He then taught himself to draw with his left hand and his career resumed. Vierge's involvement with with Don Quixote spanned some 30 years and culminated in the Scribner's edition of Thomas Shelton's 17th-century translation two years after his death (the British Library holds an edition published in London in the same year by Unwin). His earliest illustrations of the novel appeared in an incomplete part-work edition, published in Paris in 1875. None of those illustrations appear to have been re-used in the 1906 edition. Vierge travelled to Spain in 1893. In this he was following in the footsteps of Gustave Doré, who had been in Spain in 1855 and 1861 before producing his l illustrations for the 1863 edition of Viardot's French translation of Don Quixote. Vierge executed a number of watercolours that were then used to illustrate the account of the Spanish journey of his friend, August F. Jaccaci.Some of Vierge's many watercolours and ink wash drawings were re-worked in pen and ink as a basis for the engravings of his edition of Don Quixote.
