BY LOUIS MORIN. PEN DRAWING. FROM “L’ART ET L’IDÉE.”
BY CARLOS SCHWABE. PEN DRAWING. FROM ZOLA’S “LE RÊVE.”
BY EUGENE GRASSET. PEN DRAWING FROM “LES QUATRE FILS D’AYMON” (PARIS).
BY EUGENE GRASSET. PEN DRAWING FROM “LES QUATRE FILS D’AYMON” (PARIS).
BY LOUIS MORIN. PEN DRAWING. FROM “L’ART ET L’IDÉE.”
Several fine and limited editions have been published lately, illustrated by Albert Lynch, Mme. Lemaire, and Paul Avril, such as the "Dame aux Camélias;" while Octave Uzanne's series on fans and fashions were a great success. So, too, are many of the books issued by Conquet. Robida's designs for Rabelais virtually superseded those of Doré, and he followed up the success of this book with a number of others which have gradually degenerated in quality. Louis Morin, who is author as well as artist; E. Grasset, who, not content with this, is an architect too, and whose "Quatre Fils d'Aymon" should be seen as a beautiful piece of colour-printing; and Georges Auriol have done extremely good work in their different ways. Félicien Rops is a man who stands apart from all other illustrators; he possesses a style and individuality so marked that, at times, it is not easy to obtain any of his books, so carefully are they watched by that Cerberus of the press: the social puritan, who never fails to see anything to which he can possibly find objection. From the mystic Rops, have sprung, one might almost say, even more mystic Rosicrucians, headed by Carlos Schwabe, who has produced, in "Le Rêve" of Zola, one of the most beautiful and refined books, despite its disgraceful printing, ever issued from the French press.