Harry Clarke illustrations light up rare Edgar Allan Poe and Goethe editions for sale

Illustrated books can suffer from having the images removed, framed and resold, but many fascinating examples survive. Harry Clarke, famous for his stained-glass windows, also had a significant career in print. Having delighted children with his 1916 drawings for Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales, he went on to exercise the more gothic reaches of his incredible imagination with Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination, published in 1919, some 70 years after Poe’s death.

Illustrator Richard Doyle came from a very interesting family. He was son of the Irish-born political caricaturist John Doyle, and brother to Henry Doyle, first director of the National Gallery of Ireland. His nephew also happened to be Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle.

Richard Doyle, from facsimile edition of In Fairyland: A Series of Pictures from the Elf World with text by William Allingham

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