Description
A follow-up to the book "Adventurous World of Zdenek Burian," this volume collects over 450 of Zdenek Burian's exceptional illustrations for Czech publishers from 1928 to 1956 illustrating the fiction of Jules Verne (20,000 Leagues under the Sea, Mysterious Island, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Five Weeks in a Balloon, etc.).
This massive (9 1/2" x 13" and 472 pages) book reproduces the illustrations from the original art.
The renown Czech artist Zdenek Burian is best known internationally for his paintings of dinosaurs, extinct mammals and prehistoric man, but his illustration work is only known in the Czech Republic.
The text is in Czech, but the majority of the book is taken up reproducing over 400 painted illustrations by Burian.
Features
Zdenek Burian
Condition & Attributes
Near Fine in Very Fine obi band in the publisher's shrinkwrap (the rear corners are bent very slightly inward, otherwise the book is Very Fine)
Creators
Zdenek
Burian
Publishing Information
Prague
Albatros Media
2018
1st
Physical Description
13.3 inches
10 inches
472 pages
over 450 color illustrations
hardcover
pictorial cloth
Czech
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