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Originally Posted by Ea
That would be wonderful. You don't have to scan, a photo would be fine if that is easier. One reason I am interested, apart from the quality of the books themselves, is that the artist name "Ingahild Grathmer" is actually a pseudonym for HM Queen Margrethe II of Denmark. She's been a fan since she read the books when they were first published. However, I haven't been able to find out exactly what this mean: "Illustrations by Ingahild Grathmer, drawn by Eric Fraser" and how much it affects the final look. Does it mean that Eric Fraser has made new illustrations inspired by hers, or just inked in her original drawings. If I could see few (3-4) then I could get a better impression. They do have two examples on the Folio Soc. page, but the style doesn't look like what I would expect - I just don't know if they are representative for the book.
Stop press... I was just now looking for examples of what I expect, and stumbled over a site with four examples of promotional posters for an edition with the queen's drawings, and it says right on them that they are redrawn by Eric Fraser ( http://www.qxl.dk/pris/antikviteter-...v/an567595504/) - image on the left. If that is representative of the books, then I'm sure I'd like to buy them. I'd still like to take advantage of your offer and see a few examples  |
You can see the scans from the pages here on Flickr:
http://flickr.com/gp/slashclee/0990C2
I scanned in the Moria illustration (the one from Tolkien in "A Journey in the Dark") from both the Houghton Mifflin paperback set I have and from the Folio Society edition. It should be pretty clear that even with the same source image, the quality is far superior on the Folio Society printing.
Edit: I did not scan in all of the illustrations - each book had at least one more full-size illustration, and there is an illustration for *every* chapter heading.
Looks like you could probably get them for 80GBP -
http://www.hay-on-wyebooks.com/si/A17732.html