Images: (top) Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey (1821). Illustrated by Willy Pogany. Collins Clear-type press.
(middle) Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey (1821). Illustrated by Willy Pogany. Collins clear-type press.
(above) Parsifal (1912) (left) Title page (right) Spread) Illustrated by Willy Pogany.
A prolific illustrator, Pogany was the master of detail. His title page for Parsifal (1912) is reminiscent of the manuscript images. This book, amongst others was completely designed and executed by Pogany, all text and end pages were hand calligraphed in pen and ink, images illustrated in colour and wash. The Collins Clear-type press edition of The Confessions of and English Opium Eater is part of my collection. The book is not dated but has an inscription dated February 1928. Pogany lived and worked in London for some 10 years after leaving Paris in 1915, so it was probably in those years that these illustrations were originally penned, probably for a much larger edition. Pogany illustrated many children's books as well as those for young adults. In later years he illustrated for the American Weekly. Pogany worked constantly till his death in 1955.
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