BULL, Ren Mrime, Prosper Johnson, A.E. Carmen 1916
One of 100 Copies Signed by Ren Bull[BULL, Ren, illustrator]. MRIME, Prosper. Carmen. Translated by A.E. Johnson. With Pictures by Ren Bull. London: Hutchinson & Co., [n.d, 1916]. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 100 numbered copies (this copy being No. 55), signed by the artist. Quarto (10 3/4 x 8 7/16 inches; 273 x 214 mm.). [2, blank], x, 204 pp. Color frontispiece and fifteen color plates, with descriptive tissue guards. Seventy-four black and white illustrations in the text.Original vellum over boards pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Gray and white pictorial endpapers. All edges gilt. Spine a little darkened. Otherwise an excellent copy of this very scarce signed limited edition.Ren Bull (d. 1942) was born in Ireland and went to Paris to study engineering, but left this for art work in London, 1892. After working for various magazines, he was appointed special for Black and White, 1896, attending the Armenian massacres and the Graeco-Turkish War as artist He served in the First World War in RNVR, 1916, and RAF, 1917. Bull was one of the most versatile specials because his stature as an artist was above average. Not only an accurate reporter, he was a talented comic draughtsman and a brilliant illustrator of fairy stories (Houfe, The Dictionary of 19th Century British Book Illustrators, p. 81). Works illustrated by Bull include: La Fontaine s Fables (1905), Uncle Remus, by Joel Chandler Harris (1906), The Arabian Nights (1912), The Russian Ballet by A.E. Johnson (1913), Rubiyt of Omar Khayym (1913), Carmen, by Prosper Mrime (1916), and Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Jonathan Swift (1928).
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