once upon ein time

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"Es war einmal..."

So begin these fairy tales, retold in German (with the hard-to-read fraktur typeface, no less) by Moritz Hartmann, and illustrated by the great Gustav Dore. I've uploaded the first of these, "das Rothkaeppchen," aka "Little Red Riding Hood" (or cap), to my flickr page.



Along with the full-size fullpage scans, you'll notice I've also messed with some of the illustrations in Photoshop, blurring the engraving lines of selected portions of pictures to hint at what Dore's original monochrome paintings must have looked like before the engraver worked his particular craft on them. I plan to try and scan a story a day, more or less, until the book is finished.

Some terrifying and disturbing images will follow. You might want to park the wee ones in front of a "Die Hard" movie until the series is finished.
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Hmmm! Yes, I'll have to think of wish-list material. I usually just go and browse, but I know there are things I've sought for many moons and all that jazz.