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4 unusual facts about Edward Julius Detmold


Edward Julius Detmold

Edward Detmold was painstaking in his work, missing deadlines so that a complete set of colour plates for Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales were never used by Hodder and remained unpublished.

In 1919 he also produced a portfolio of "Twenty Four Nature Pictures" and in 1921 on "Our Little Neighbours" and Jean-Henri Fabre's "Book of Insects".

Their next joint project was to produce a set of 16 watercolours for Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" published in 1908 by Macmillan.

In 1911 Detmold worked on illustrations for Maurice Maeterlinck's "The Life of the Bee", Camille Lemonnier's "Birds and Beasts" and "The Book of Baby Beasts".



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