I've been doing some upgrading to my personal library and just purchased some older editions of books I already own. One of the benefits I think to getting vintage books is to find ones with interesting art in them. Having long been in possession of a copy of Jane Eyre with haunting woodcuts by Fritz Eichenberg, I have just bought two other books he's worked on: the companion copy of Wuthering Heights and a lithograph-illustrated version of The Brothers Karamazov. My mother asked to see some of the art, so I'm posting (maybe some of the rest of you will be interested too). I've added some of the woodcuts from Jane Eyre for comparison and a handful of painted illustrations by Jean de Bosschere from my copy of The Decameron to lift the black and white mood a bit. But I'm going to break up some of this into separate entries so nobody scrolls themselves to death.
These will be very photo-intensive entries. I'll put everything behind cuts, but you've been warned.
Lockwood nearly mauled to death by Heathcliff's dogs
More dog near-mauling...here a young Heathcliff probably shoud have let the dog finish Cathy off and saved everybody a lot of grief
Cathy sits and plans her next harpy move
Cathy haunted by Heathcliff (I accidentally put a finger over the flash hence the red, but it looks kind of cool so I kept it)
Heathcliff and Cathy enjoy a brief respite from trying to tear each others' throats out
Heathcliff terrorizes Cathy and Edgar Linton's child for looking like Cathy. And because he's just a terrifying individual
The Cathy and Heathcliff spawn try to right the wrongs of the past
Oh Heathcliff, you so crazy...
In death, Cathy and Heathcliff are together and happy, though they basically exist to scare the living daylights out of everybody else
Title page
Dinner at Jane's miserable, stupid school Lowood
Jane makes a rather unfortunate first impression on her employer by accidentally causing his horse to throw him
The Ingrams condescend to everyone within a five-mile radius (here, Adele)
Jane and Rochester in the garden of Thornfield
FLASHBACK: Rochester attempts to sleep with every European woman he can lay his hands on (he even has a pimp cane!)
A good example of Eichenberg's creepy take on what children look like
Jane tries to give a damn while St. John bores the pants off everyone within a five-mile radius
When you're keeping your crazy wife locked up in your attic, you can't act all surprised when she burns your house down