Christopher Jon Luke Dowgin's Blog: A Walk Through Salem, Ma, page 2

Fairy Book Illustrator

Henry Justice Ford

H. J. Ford, who is perhaps best known for his collaboration with Andrew Lang on the series of twelve Coloured Fairy Books (1889-1910), had a somewhat unusual career for an illustrator. Born in London, where he spent most of his life, he attended Repton and won a scholarship to Clare College, Cambridge, from which he graduated with a first-class degree in classics. After graduation, he studied at the Slade school of Art with Alphonse Legros and the Bushey school of Art with Sir Hubert Herkomer. A friend of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, he exhibited history paintings and landscapes at the Royal Academy between 1892 and 1903. In addition creating illustrations for the Fairy Books, he also produced many historical subjects set from the middle ages to the eighteenth-century for Lang's The Red True Story Book (1895) and other works. He also illustrated The Arabian Nights Entertainments (1895) and Pilgrim's Progress (1921).

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Salem, Ma Smuggling Tunnels

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Salem Secret Underground
The History of the Tunnels in the City
Authored by Christopher Jon Luke Dowgin

In 1801 Elias Hasket Derby Jr. leaves his two year retirement. His father, the country's first millionaire, has left him a money pit that many would consider one of the nations first American Castles. The expense to keep up this mansion and his leisurely life style has forced Elias back into action. He will take command of the local militia to fill in the ponds in the Common as part of an elaborate plot. The plot would entail the beautification of this neighborhood and entice a series of merchants and ship captains to build a series of two grand brick mansions set apart at fixed distances around the new park. All attached to a series of smuggling tunnels that would lead from the wharf, to their stores, and the banks.

An elaborate scheme filled with Masons, pirates, a Secretary of the Navy, Senators, Representatives, a Supreme Court Justice, Presidents, and a touch of murder! Dig into the tunnels of Salem and find the underbelly of our nation!

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Salem Gazette Article
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Frank C. Pape

Frank C. Pape

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frank C. Papé illustration for James Branch Cabell's Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice (1921)

Frank Cheyne Papé, who generally signed himself Frank C. Papé (b. Camberwell, July 4, 1878 - d. 1972) was an English artist and book illustrator.

Papé's earliest illustrations are found in books for children from around 1908, including The Odyssey and The Pilgrim's Progress. During the second decade of the 20th Century he made extensive contributions to the following titles :

The Gateway to Spenser - Stories from the Faërie Queen (1910);
The Pilgrim's Progress (1910);
The Golden Fairy Book (1911);
The Ruby Fairy Book (1911);
The Diamond Fairy Book (1911);
Sigurd and Gudrun (1912);
Siegfried and Kriemhild (1912);
The Book of Psalms (1912);
As It Is In Heaven (1912);
The Story Without an End (1913);
Robin Hood and Other Stories of Yorkshire (1915); and
The Russian Story Book (1916).

He obtained notice with the illustrations he produced in the 1920s for a number of the books of James Branch Cabell from Biography of the Life of Manuel issued by the publishing house The Bodley Head, including Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice (1921, originally in a limited edition), The High Place, Something about Eve and The Cream of the Jest. These illustrations often wittily paralleled the double entendres in Cabell's writing. In the preface to the edition of his book Figures of Earth, issued with Papé's illustrations in 1925, Cabell praised the fitness of Papé's style for these works.

The success of these editions led to the Bodley Head commissioning illustrations by Papé for books of Anatole France, including The Revolt of the Angels (1924) and Penguin Island (1925), in addition to those for the works of Rabelais. He also designed book covers for other authors, including Rafael Sabatini.

Papé was also sought after as a designer of bookplates, including that of the author Dennis Wheatley.

During the 1930s Papé's career faltered and little book work of his is recorded after this period, although he apparently supplied illustrations to a Chicago children's magazine in the 1940s.

A number of Papé's original drawings, together with some of his correspondence, is preserved at Stanford University

Salem Tunnel tour

Chris Dowgin the author of "Salem Secret Underground: History of the Tunnels in the City" will be guiding a tour of the tunnels under Salem, Ma. On Thursday December 15th he will be leading this tour through the basements of two buildings attached to the tunnels used to smuggle goods to avoid paying duties and as a corridor for the Underground Railroad. The building is a nineteenth century bank with vaults and 5 connections to the tunnels. Come see the trapdoor, the secret door behind the work bench, and the other tunnel entrances as you learn who built them and why. Afterward Chris Dowgin will be doing a book signing for his latest book.

Where: The Vault
217 Essex Street
Salem, Ma 01970

When: Thursday December 15th

Time: 8:00 P.M.

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Return to Eden

Read my short story on how Adam returns to Eden on a technicality.

http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/2...

Books on Salem Architecture

To learn more about the architecture of Salem, make sure to read these books.

Where is this in Salem?

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Here is my Illustration of the Immaculate Rocket from Salem, Ma!

A Modern Classic that is as well written as Illustrated

Here is a link to the Illustrator:
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Then a Link to their fun web site for the book!

A Good book to Start with on a journey of great Illustrators!

Arthur Rackham




Maxfield Parish

Gustave Dore