Geneviève Rostan (?) ~ Witches kitchen , woodcut illustration for the French edition of Faust, 1927.

 

Édouard Chimot (1880 – 1959) ~ aquatint etching illustration for Les Chansons de Bilitis, 1925.

 

Josef Váchal (1884-1969) ~ illustration for the Castle of Death, Wood engravings 1912.

 

Frederick Sandys (1829–1904) ~ Illustration to Harold Harfagr, 1862.

 

Charles Ricketts ( 1866-1931) ~ Cover design for 'Saint Joan' by Bernard Shaw, pencil, pen and brown ink, heightened with white on paper.

Born today...Jean De Bosschere, 5 July 1878, Uccle, Belgium.

illustration for The Love Books of Ovid, 1925.

Charles Gir (1883-1941) ~ illustration for Luxure a collection of poems by Maurice Dekobra, 1924.

Manuel Orazi (1860-1934) ~ illustration for Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire, 1934.

Édouard Chimot (1880 -1959) ~ illustration for Maurice Magre, 1920.

I do not know whether there are people who escape despair, and if there are, I believe that they are not very numerous. I do not envy those people. There is in despair a bitter substance, a fecund poison, the seed of a superior virtue that one cannot find elsewhere. Everyone, sooner or later, ought to aspire to the juice of the hemlock that gives wings, the sacred belladonna. But it is necessary to be able to drink the poison and not die.

-Maurice Magre

Suzanne Ballivet (1904 - 1985) ~ illustrations for the adventures of King Pausolus by Pierre LOUYS 1927

Lucien LÉVY-DHURMER (1863-1953) ~ illustration for Bruges-la-Morte by G. Rodenbach,1930.

Luc Lafnet (1899–1939) ~ illustration for Les étreintes sacrilèges, sonnets of Lucio Dornano 1926

Leonor Fini (1908-1996) ~ illustration for Farewell by Honore de Balzac 1965

Martin van Maele (1863 - 1926) ~ illustration for Hysterical poems 1883

Daniel Sigros ~ illustrations for The Devil in Love by Jacques Cazotte, 1946 part 1

Antoine Monnier (1846-?) ~ Etchings for Eccentric Sonnets and Strange Poems, 1873

Sidney Harold Meteyard (1868 - 1947) ~ Lucifer and his Angels (powers of the air), illustration for 'The Golden Legend' by Henry Longfellow, watercolour 1910

Lilian Gourari... illustrations for an edition of the Marquis de Sade’s Misfortunes Of Virtue, 1947

André Masson 1896-1987 ~ illustration for Georges Bataille's The Story of the Eye 1928

Raphael Soyer (1899-1987) ... lithographs for Isaac Bashevis Singer's "The Gentleman From Cracow" and "The Mirror" 1970