An Edwardian Bestiary

Bibliographical Note

This Dover edition, first published in 2009, is an original compilation of illustrations from the following list of sources (arranged in chronological order). The first two volumes were illustrated by both Maurice Detmold and Edward J. Detmold; all of the remaining titles were illustrated solely by Edward J. Detmold.

Pictures from Birdland (J. M. Dent & Co., London and E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1899);

The Jungle Book (Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London, 1908);

The Fables of Aesop (Hodder and Stoughton, New York, 1909);

The Book of Baby Pets (Henry Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton. London, 1910);

The Book of Baby Beasts (Henry Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1911);

Birds and Beasts (George Allen & Co., Ltd., London, 1911);

The Book of Baby Birds (Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London, 1912);

Hours of Gladness (George Allen & Co., Ltd., London and Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1912);

Birds in Town and Village (E. P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1920);

Fabre’s Book of Insects (Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1921);

Our Little Neighbours (Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London, 1921);

Rainbow Houses (Jonathan Cape, London, 1923); and

The Arabian Nights (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1924).

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

An Edwardian bestiary: 87 color plates / Maurice Detmold and Edward J.

Detmold ; edited and with a new introduction by Jeff A. Menges.

p. cm.

9780486136349

1. Detmold, Charles Maurice, 1883—1908. 2. Detmold, Edward Julius, 1883—1957.3. Animals in art. I. Menges, Jeff A. II. Detmold, Charles Maurice, 1883—1908. III. Detmold, Edward Julius. 1883—1957.

NC978.5.D46A4 2009
741.6’4092—dc22

2008044541

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