BIBLE KJV: HOLY BIBLE / ILLUSTRATED BIBLE / KING JAMES VERSION / KJV BIBLE - FLT

by King James, Gustave Dore (Illustrator), FLT (Compiler)

Overview

The HOLY BIBLE King James Version (KJV) Illustrated by Gustave Doré. Contains more than 200 images. Also, in this Bible, there are excellent navigation system and active TOC.

French artist Gustave Doré (1832-1883) produced hundreds of quality Bible story illustrations in his lifetime. These illustrations were used in Bibles of many languages in Nineteenth Century Europe and later in the Americas. Many masters produced such artwork for illustrating Biblical themes, and Doré was among the most famous of them.

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Product Details

BN ID:	2940016595375
Publisher:	FLT
Publication date:	06/23/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	971,992
File size:	21 MB
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About the Author

Louis August Gustave Doré was born in Strasbourg and his first illustrated story was published at the age of fifteen. His talent was evident even earlier, however. At age five he had been a prodigy troublemaker, playing pranks that were mature beyond his years. Seven years later, he began carving in cement. Subsequently, as a young man, he began work as a literary illustrator in Paris, winning commissions to depict scenes from books by Rabelais, Balzac, Milton and Dante.

In 1853, Doré was asked to illustrate the works of Lord Byron. This commission was followed by additional work for British publishers, including a new illustrated English Bible. In 1856 he produced twelve folio-size illustrations of The Legend of The Wandering Jew for a short poem which Pierre-Jean de Ranger had derived from a novel of Eugène Sue of 1845.

In the 1860s he illustrated a French edition of Cervantes's Don Quixote, and his depictions of the knight and his squire, Sancho Panza, have become so famous that they have influenced subsequent readers, artists, and stage and film directors' ideas of the physical "look" of the two characters. Doré also illustrated an oversized edition of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", an endeavor that earned him 30,000 francs from publisher Harper & Brothers in 1883.