#Rafaello Busoni

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The Many Illustrators of A Tale of Two Cities 5: Rafaello Busoni (⅗)

Vignettes for Book the Second, Chapters 14-24

Here is the second half of Busoni's work for Book the Second - and it really is about half because there are the same total number of images again at 27 (including the above)!

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& the standard endnote for all posts in this series:

This post is intended to act as the start of a forum on the given illustrator, so if anyone has anything to add - requests to see certain drawings in higher definition (since Tumblr compresses images), corrections to factual errors, sources for better-quality versions of the illustrations, further reading, fun facts, any questions, or just general commentary - simply do so on this post, be it in a comment/tags or the replies!💫

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Literary criticism of the work by Stendhal in the early twentieth century by comparison with more recent writers on the novel The Red and the Black in easy American idiom.

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The Dutch East Indies and the Philippines (1943, cover illustration by Rafaello Busoni)

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1948 HCDJ A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated Junior Library) Charles Dickens illustrated by Rafaello Busoni. Ex-library with associate markings and attachments. Sunning to spine as shown. 📦$13 shipped in the US. Link in bio, claim in comments or DM to purchase. 📚🇫🇷🇬🇧 #charlesdickens #dickens #dickensian #rafaellobusoni #illustration #vintageillustration #frenchrevolution #reignofterror #thebastille #englishliterature #historicalfiction #vintage #retro #midcentury #vintagebooksforsale #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #bookseller #bookaneer #bookaneer4sale (at Dodge Center, Minnesota) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-GRL30gMTp/?igshid=1c52z97n4eoez

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Author Name    Beyle, Marie-Henri (Stendhal) Title   The Red and the Black Binding   Hard Cover Book Condition   Very Good ++ Jacket Condition   Near Fine Slipcase Edition   Reprint Edition Size   4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Publisher   New York Heritage Press 1954 Illustrator   Rafaello Busoni Seller ID   000740 http://www.grassriverbooks.com Translated by Hamilton Basso. Translation copyright 1926; renewed 1954. Special contents of this edition copyright 1947 by George Macy Companies. Appropriately bound in red spine and black boards with black spine titling and a red illustrationon cover; all sides of textblock retain publisher's red stain. 450 pages. Two-toned illustrations (red and black). ~~ This novel was originally published in 1830 by this French writer also known by his pen name Standahl. He is considered one of the earliest practitioners of realism in his fiction, and also for his psychological analysis of his characters. This novel is also a satire of 19th century French society as it profiles the coming-of-age of a young man trying to climb the social ladder and also the women who fall in love with him. ~~ Book is near fine, marred only by some residual glue marks on the front pastedown from previous owner's bookplate; spine is also mildly sunned. The Heritage Club "Sandglass" pamphlet is laid in. Black slipcase is also near fine, fully intact with just some minor scuff marks. A very nice copy. Illustration Page 201 – And a shot of principle characters.  Busoni does a phenomenal job with the art in this book – this may be my favorite of his I’ve seen.

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The Many Illustrators of A Tale of Two Cities 5: Rafaello Busoni (⅖)

Vignettes for Book the Second, Chapters 1-13

Like I said in the first post in this subseries, I'm going to be putting a minimal amount of writing in the rest of these Rafaello Busoni posts. Here we go into the first half of his work for Book the Second, presented in order! 27 images in total (including the above).

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(though this scene is from Book the First, the illustration was in the pages of Book the Second)

& the standard endnote for all posts in this series:

This post is intended to act as the start of a forum on the given illustrator, so if anyone has anything to add - requests to see certain drawings in higher definition (since Tumblr compresses images), corrections to factual errors, sources for better-quality versions of the illustrations, further reading, fun facts, any questions, or just general commentary - simply do so on this post, be it in a comment/tags or the replies!💫

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The Many Illustrators of A Tale of Two Cities 5: Rafaello Busoni (5/5)

Vignettes for Book the Third, Chapters 10-15

This is it! A warm goodbye to the wonderful work of Rafaello Busoni! 17 pictures in total. (And yes, I didn't realize until too late that there's no unicode fraction for 5/5😔)

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To my recollection, this was the only illustration in the entire book that took up an entire page without any writing.

That's all, folks!

& the standard endnote for all posts in this series:

This post is intended to act as the start of a forum on the given illustrator, so if anyone has anything to add - requests to see certain drawings in higher definition (since Tumblr compresses images), corrections to factual errors, sources for better-quality versions of the illustrations, further reading, fun facts, any questions, or just general commentary - simply do so on this post, be it in a comment/tags or the replies!💫

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The Many Illustrators of A Tale of Two Cities 5: Rafaello Busoni (⅕)

...v. Tumblr's 30-image limit for posts...

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Here we are in a month with five Tuesdays! This month, we'll be taking a look at my scans of the illustration work of Rafaello Busoni for this beautiful 1948 edition that I've had in my possession for over four years.

And I really mean beautiful!

And yes, I did say month, not week: Because Tumblr posts have an image limit of 30, I have to split the work of some illustrators over several posts. As of now, Busoni's is likely to be the most extreme at five unique posts - and yep, that means there won't be any miscellaneous weeks for this month, i.e. every week this month will have a post dedicated to a slice of his over 100 individual illustrations for the novel!

So...suffice it to say...there isn't gonna be a lot of writing on the rest of the posts in this subseries😂 I'll do a simple overview here of the five types of illustrations we'll be seeing (excluding the images above of course) and then leave it at that - the rest of the month will be dedicated to simply enjoying Busoni's expressive yet meticulous work in his dozens of marvelous vignettes.

So let's dive right in by identifying those five types in his illustrations for Book the First!

1: Book-title vignettes (each on their own page)

2: Chapter-title vignettes (every single chapter has one!)

3: Single vignettes (sprinkled throughout some of the chapters)

4: Color vignettes (printed on a separate page)

5: Page-spread vignettes (see how the second interacts with the first? it's one big illustration!)

I've been looking forward to posting these vignettes for over four years now - it's going to be quite the month for good vintage A Tale of Two Cities illustrations. Enjoy, and Happy April!

& the standard endnote for all posts in this series:

This post is intended to act as the start of a forum on the given illustrator, so if anyone has anything to add - requests to see certain drawings in higher definition (since Tumblr compresses images), corrections to factual errors, sources for better-quality versions of the illustrations, further reading, fun facts, any questions, or just general commentary - simply do so on this post, be it in a comment/tags or the replies!💫

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The Many Illustrators of A Tale of Two Cities 5: Rafaello Busoni (⅘)

Vignettes for Book the Third, Chapters 1-9

Now we're on to Book the Third! This will actually be the last set to have anything but the regular mini vignette drawings. 21 in total!

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& the standard endnote for all posts in this series:

This post is intended to act as the start of a forum on the given illustrator, so if anyone has anything to add - requests to see certain drawings in higher definition (since Tumblr compresses images), corrections to factual errors, sources for better-quality versions of the illustrations, further reading, fun facts, any questions, or just general commentary - simply do so on this post, be it in a comment/tags or the replies!💫

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The Many Illustrators of A Tale of Two Cities 8: Edmund H. Garrett (1/2)

...& a small mystery that solved itself!

I've been looking forward to this one for quite a while!

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Edmund H. Garrett created dozens of vignette illustrations for this two-volume 1894 edition of A Tale of Two Cities. What makes this edition special - besides the sheer volume of work and Garrett's attention to detail in regard to characterization - is that most of these illustrations appeared in the page with the text, much like Rafaello Busoni's!

What are even more interesting for me personally, though, are the larger rectangular illustrations which do not appear within the text-pages - because my original source for these did not contain those at all! The thing is, many months after finding my original source, I did actually come across the first of the larger illustrations (the one pictured above) in a photo of an open book on eBay or Etsy, and because it was the only illustration pictured in the listing, I assumed it was from a new mystery illustrator that I would discover at some point. Imagine my delight when, on a whim, I set out to find higher-quality versions of these vignettes on the Internet Archive, only to discover that the illustrator who made the vignettes also made that mystery illustration!

And that's not the only way I got lucky here: While I did manage to find higher-quality versions of both volumes, I actually found them separately (one uploader had apparently only scanned vol. 1, and another had only scanned vol. 2), and these, as far as I could tell, were both the only versions uploaded to the Internet Archive at all - wow! As you probably know by now, I don't get a lot of easy wins with this project, so I'm very grateful when I do😅

And without further ado, here they are: Garrett's illustrations for vol. 1!

Hope you enjoyed - vol. 2's illustrations will be up in two weeks!

& the standard endnote for all posts in this series:

This post is intended to act as the start of a forum on the given illustrator, so if anyone has anything to add - requests to see certain drawings in higher definition (since Tumblr compresses images), corrections to factual errors, sources for better-quality versions of the illustrations, further reading, fun facts, any questions, or just general commentary - simply do so on this post, be it in a comment/tags or the replies!💫

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– Illustrators –

|| Whole Series ||

|| Rafaello Busoni || Enos Benjamin Comstock || Max Cowper || A. A. Dixon || Harvey Dunn || Harry Furniss || Edmund H. Garrett || Leopold Gedo || Walter G. Grieve || Ava Lisbeth Morgan || Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz) || Curtiss Sprague || F. H. Townsend || Rowland Wheelwright