Brilliant Beginnings: The Youthful Works of Great Artists, Writers, and Composers

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000. First English Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition Hardcover Ex-Library Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Translated from the French by John Goodman. Minimal lib marks, no pockets or cards. Jacket very clean and otherwise unmarked. Internals, other than lib stamps on endpapers, in Fine condition. Lavishly illustrated--full color, full page illustrations, musical scores, drawings, poems hand-written reproductions, etc, on nesrly every page. The authors present early works of 84 remarkable people from the great fifteenth-century book illuminator Pol de Limbourg to the Holocause diarist Anne Frank. There are reproductions in color of paintings, drawings, letters, essays and musical compositions. For example--the earliest known drawings by the great German Renaissance master Albrecht Durer including a self-portrait in silverpoint made when he was only thirteen years old; sculpture of 18-year-old Michelangelo; youthful writings of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Victor Hugo, Marcel Proust; musical compositions by child and youth compositions of Mozart, Schubert and Mendelssohn. And other important and influential figures such as scientists Louis Pasture and Andre Ampere. Accompanying the examples of creative work are short biographical sketches of the creators and brief essays behind the stories behind the works. A m agnificent volume. 231 ages with Bibliography, Key Authorships of Entries, and Index. 10 x 12.5 inches. 2000, Harry N. Abrams, New York