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Re: Need good scan of early Verne color illustration

From: Andrew Nash <anash~at~julesverne.ca>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:04:51 -0400
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>, "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il> 



Hello Rick.

I finally have the book in front of me.


It doesn't look like it will open wide enough to scan, plus my scanner
has just been packed up.


SO..I will take a high resolution photograph, probably macro with good
lighting and should be able to accomplish the same thing for
you.


This is from the 1911, Henry Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton edition

and the image is titled:

"We crouched on the raft ready to fire at them" and is the same
as the lowest picture on my website.


... Andrew


Hopefully this can happen in the next week... 


Andrew





At 11:58 PM 22/01/2008, Rick Walter wrote:


Dear
Friends--

 

I'm writing in the desperate hope somebody can help
me get a scan of an early Verne color illustration. 

 

I need a good copy of one of T. C. Dugdale's pictures
for JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH: his painting of the battle in Ch.
33 between the ichthyosaurus and plesiosaurus. According to Taves &
Micheluk's JULES VERNE ENCYCLOPEDIA (p. 108, bottom of 1st column, top of
2nd), these little-known but attractive color illustrations first
appeared in a 1911 British edition of JCE published by Henry Frowde and
Hodder & Stoughton. Furthermore, Dugdale's paintings were reissued in
a 1924 edition published by Humphrey Milford, an arm at that time of
Oxford U.P.; Andrew Nash's collectibles webpage cites this later edition
along with miniatures of Dugdale's artwork at

http://www.julesverne.ca/vernebooks/jvbkjourney.html -- 1923 listing.


 

Though Dugdale's pictures have been in the public
domain for a good while, I've never actually seen reprints of them in
either the USA or the UK. 

 

Anyhow, my friends, I earnestly need a good copy of
Dugdale's battling reptiles, one that I could convert to a respectable
slide, among other uses. (The Albuquerque Balloon Museum keeps asking me
to give Verne talks, and since we're both on the city payroll, I always
comply; but I'd like to use public domain visuals where possible.) 

 

Can anybody on the Forum help me get a scan of this
pioneering illustration? Both of these editions seem pretty scarce, but
SOMEBODY must have a copy -- do you, by chance?  I'm happy to defray
ANY expenses incurred in generating a sharp scan. If you can help, please
let me know at your earliest convenience.

 

Profuse thanks in advance.

 

Rick Walter

Albuquerque, New Mexico

(505)  821-5678

 


rick1walter~at~comcast.net

 


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