ILLUSTRATIONS FOR A NEW EDITION OF THE WORLD-RENOWNED CLASSIC BY EDITH HAMILTON.
First published by Little, Brown and Company, 1942. Reissued, March 2013.
Forty eight wood engravings: twenty five chapter heads and twenty three full page illustrations.
A selection of the preliminary pencil sketches:
Some finished engravings:
Prometheus and Io
Psyche
Zeus
Pyramus and Thisbe
Theseus in the Labyrinth
Death of Achilles
Medusa
Aeneas escaping Cyclops
Cadmus and the Dragon
Norse Myths
Mount Olympus
Pandora's Box
The Rape of Persephone
Cupid and Psyche
Minotaur
Bellerophon and Chimaera
Hercules and Cerberus
Harpies
The Judgement of Paris
Perseus and Medusa