#Louis Rhead

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Illustration by Louis Rhead (1896)

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King Arthur and his Knights

compiled and arranged by James Knowles

Blue Ribbon Books

New York

1923

Artist : Louis Rhead

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The Blue Light from Grimm's Fairytales, illustration by Louis Rhead

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Merlin the Magician by Louis Rhead (1923)

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Richard Siken, Piano Lesson

Louis Rhead's illustration of The Seven Ravens, from Grimm's Fairy Tales: Stories and Tales of Elves, Goblins, and Fairies

Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

Carol Ann Duffy, Thetis

Jeannine Hall Gailey, Introduction to the Body in Fairytales

Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

Henry Justice Ford's illustration of The Enchanted Pig, from The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Ursula Vernon, Jackalope Wives

Franny Choi, Soft Science

C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Tam Lin (Child 39), adapted by Anaïs Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer

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'Encourage the Beautiful'

Illustration by Louis Rhead, published 1907.

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MEADOW GRASS: TALES OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE by Alice Brown (Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895) Binding designed by Louis Rhead

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Typography Tuesday

Last week, as part of a gift, we received a 1914 copy of Days in the Open by American clergyman and angler Lathan A. Crandall with decorations by the English-born American illustrator Louis Rhead, published in New York and Chicago by the Christian publishing firm Fleming H. Revell Company. We were taken not only by Rhead’s Art Nouveau decorations and illustrations for this volume, but also by how he turned ordinary chapter-opening initial letters into Art Nouveau historiated initials through the use of five different cuts combined with the letters. 

Louis Rhead was a prolific designer and illustrator who came from a family of prominent English potters and artists. He was initially trained in art by his father and then in Paris by the neoclassical French artist Gustave Boulanger. When he emigrated to the US at the age of 24, however, he became deeply influenced by the work of Swiss Art Nouveau decorative artist Eugène Grasset. In America, Rhead also became an avid angler, and much of his work after 1900 often involved angling art, as in this publication. Rhead even died in the pursuit of his avocation, dying of a heart attack soon after hooking and then struggling to remove a 30-pound turtle that had been devastating his trout ponds. Now, that’s devotion!

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Louis Rhead (1857-1926)

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Louis Rhead (1857-1926), ''The Fairy Book'' by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1922 Source

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Ariel, from Tales from Shakespeare by Louis Rhead (1918)

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Louis Rhead - The Elves and the Shoe-maker.

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Ariel:

"On a bat's back I do fly."

From Shakespeare's "The Tempest," 1611. Illustration by Louis Rhead, 1918.

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The Journal (1896) by Louis Rhead (1857 - 1926).

(Picture source for The Journal).

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Orsino from 'Twelfth Night' by Louis Rhead