Book Illustrations 2: Trnka

... death & the emperor, from "The Nightingale"

Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales / by H. C. Anderson; illustrated by Jiri Trnka London : Spring Books, 1961

(This one figures in a book I copped as a long-ago b-day present from my Grandfather)


... Titania! A character sketch, for Trnka's stop-motion adaptation of:

A Midsummer Night's Dream / William Shakespeare ; with pictures from the film by Jiri Trnka Praha : Artia, 1960

A sad story: I bought a 16mm print of this one - technicolour, and in wide-screen scope - at a deceased estate auction for $21. I delegated some friends to collect it (the auction was interstate, you understand) & they grabbed the wrong reels - a Russian ballet film of the same title.

Stills can be found at the Kratky Film website...

... and some clips can be found on this site, and at youtube.

Book Illustrations 1: Revolt of the Angels

The revolt of the angels / by Anatole France ; translated by Mrs. Wilfrid Jackson; with illustrations & decorations by Frank C. Papé.

London : J. Lane, 1924

... more on Frank C. Papé can be found here

incoming: Synaesthesia bookfair

Synaesthesia Book Fair
Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th March
12 midday - 6pm

Horribly-obscured & super-fine marginalia, salvaged from the trashcan of history for yr consumer delectations...

(where?) Synaesthesia Records
level 2
28 block place
melbourne CBD
(above cafe cortile)

* postscript: couple weeks later, & synaesthesia records was all gone!

the passing, remarked upon by the herald sun, here