Gustave Doré’s Bible: The Old Testament: with full-colour illustrations Hardcover – June 5, 2023

160 beautiful and dramatic engravings by Gustave Doré.Illustrations expertly and sensitively recreated in colour specially for this editionLarge format (8.25 x 11 in)High quality 90 gsm paperDoré's Bible illustrations were created for La Grande Bible de Tours, an 1866 deluxe folio edition of an 1834 French translation of the Bible. It contains 160 illustrations for the Old Testament, including several of the Deuterocanonical books, and 81 illustrations for the New Testament.The Bible gave Doré the opportunity to depict a vast array of intensely dramatic events. In the Old Testament we see his visions of plague, destruction, storms, battles, murders and massacres, The New Testament too has its violence and storms, but here there is greater emphasis on women, children, miracles, angels and yet more angels.These Bible illustrations were, of course, conceived and intended for publication in black-and-white. In this orrydian edition, all of the original illustrations have been expertly and sympathetically recreated in colour to emphasise both the human and the dramatic nature of the stories. Each illustration is accompanied by the verses from the King James version of the Bible that the scene depicts.Other works with illustrations by Doré, enhanced in full-colour by Michael Richard Hinton, published by orrydian and available on Amazon, include:Dante’s Divine Comedy: Inferno, ISBN 979-8389896611Dante’s Divine Comedy: Purgatorio, ISBN 979-8390498316Dante’s Divine Comedy: Paradiso, ISBN 979-8390501207Blue Beard and other fairy tales, by Michael Richard Hinton, ISBN 979-8877429444Don Quixote, Volume I, by Miguel de Cervantes. ISBN 979-8850772079Don Quixote, Volume II, by Miguel de Cervantes. ISBN 979-8851437298Gustave Doré’s Bible: The New Testament, ISBN 979-8394485282Gustave Doré’s Bible: The Old Testament, ISBN 979-8397191159Gustave Doré’s Illustrations in Colour, ISBN 979-8883085450Idylls of the King, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ISBN 979-8399640716Mayhem in the Middle East, ISBN 979-8321918432Paradise Lost, by John Milton, ISBN 979-8392095025The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, ISBN 979-8854975513The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe, ISBN 979-8397371063The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ISBN 979-8360274858www.orrydian.co.ukwww.orrydian.com Read more