Jessie M Kings "Good King Wenceslas" in colour (cards) All 14 images shown wonderfully on hand-finished cards Start Price USD 70.00 Current Price USD 70.00 Time Left 9 days 22 hours 10 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, October 20, 2008 End Time Sunday, January 18, 2009 Location Buderim, QLD See more about 'Jessie M Kings "Good King Wenceslas" in colour (cards)' Description    Jessie M King's colour illustrations for A Carol: Good King Wenceslas (1920)   A set of 14 blank Greeting Cards showing the suite of colour illustrations for this very rare vintage book - perfect for Christmas     The current offering is for a set of 14 blank Greeting Cards showing the entire suite of colour illustrations produced by Jessie M King for A Carol: Good King Wenceslas.   The classic Christmas carol, Good King Wenceslas, is brought to life in wonderful illustrations by Jessie M King in this lovely low volume printing published in, or about, 1920.   1st Edition copies of A Carol: Good King Wenceslas are extraordinarily rare and thus, expensive - when they are offered on the international market, sales may occur for more than US$1,000.     The illustrations presented as tipped-in plates with this set of Greeting Cards   Frontispiece Good King Wenceslas (Carol) Good King Wenceslas (Score)   Good King Wenceslas   Good King Wenceslas look out On the Feast of Stephen When a poor man came in sight Gathering winter fuel Hither, Page, and stand by me, If thou knowest it telling, Yonder Peasant, who is he, Where and what his dwelling? Sire, he lives a good league hence, Underneath the Mountain; Right against the forest fence By Saint Agnes' Fountain     These wonderful images are presented on the Greeting Cards as tipped-in plates - in homage to the wonderfully hand-crafted approach typical of prestige illustrated publications produced in the early decades of the 20th Century.   Using pristine 1st Edition plates held in the Collection as a reference, the images are captured and reproduced through a technique that ensures the colour, line and form of the illustrations originally prepared by King are shown to dazzling effect (it is the same technique utilised for the larger reproduction prints we offer).   Hand-finishing is used to replicate the visual appearance of a tipped-in plate and the images are presented on Ivory card stock with an accompanying envelope.           On the right, we show an example of how these Greeting Cards are presented - using an image appearing in the 1st Edition suite of illustrations by Arthur Rackham for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.   The art of Jessie M King Jessie M King (1875-1949) was a Scottish painter and book illustrator who brought influences arising from the Glasgow School of Arts to both the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements - she has been referred to as the foremost Scottish book designer and illustrator of the 20th Century.   She is considered among the artists contributing to what has been termed the Golden Age of Fantasy Illustration. Among her contemporaries - on either side of the Atlantic - were artists including Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen, Warwick Goble, Willy Pogány, Maxfield Parrish, Harry Clarke and Virginia Sterrett (in Sterret's case, she has been termed 'the female Kay Nielsen').   King gained a number of awards for her work while still a student at the Glasgow School of Arts and in 1902, her binding for L'Evangile de L'Enfance took the Gold Medal at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art held in Turin.       Spirit of the Ages   We expect that, like us, you will be captivated by the beauty, power and symbolism of these objects. Each vintage and antique item we offer is drawn from our Collection of objects d'art from the Medieval and Renaissance periods, the Russian Orthodox tradition and the Gothic Revival, fin de siecle, Pre-Raphælite, Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements. When we offer reproduction images, they are also based on artwork held in our Collection.                 The people behind the collection Rosemary and Douglas Colston     For all our eBay sales, we accept PayPal only - the fast, easy, and secure way to pay online.   We post through Australia Post and provide an airmail service for international sales as standard.   Purchasers of this set of cards will incur no further charge for shipping, handling or packaging - we will ship this item domestically or internationally for free.   Payment is required within seven (7) days of the close of the Auction and our expectation is that shipping will occur within 48 hour of cleared payment (Australia Post advises that delivery to international destinations may be expected within 7-10 working days of despatch).   Every effort has been taken to describe the items accurately and thus, the items are sold as described. 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