NIELSEN, Kay (illus.)

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East of the Sun West of the Moon. Signed limited edition, number 4 of 500 copies signed by the artist. The richness of Nielsen's colour images for this lavish illustrated book of Norse pagan mythology was achieved by a four-colour process, in contrast to many of the illustrations prepared by his contemporaries, such as Rackham and Dulac, which characteristically utilized a traditional three-colour process."By general consent, Nielsen's most spectacular and celebrated book is East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Old Tales from the North, translated from the Norwegian of Peter C. Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe (devoted collectors of Scandinavian folk lore in the mid-nineteenth century). First published in 1914, this beautiful volume has been reprinted many times up to the present day... Nielsen's unique style and talent for combining the eerie and fantastic with beautiful decorative effect was at its peak with this set of illustrations" (Dalby, p. 90).

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