tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8342561433004208609.post3180507357499545067..comments2024-01-24T19:06:40.122-06:00Comments on The Oz Enthusiast: More Oz ColorBill Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14258626254481978155noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8342561433004208609.post-86915321246858710932009-03-16T10:58:00.000-05:002009-03-16T10:58:00.000-05:00The Hill edition only used one shade of green. The...The Hill edition only used one shade of green. The Dover edition of "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" has an interesting if slightly bizarre series of colors in the text illustrations. In the original book, the colors relate more or less to the country the characters are traveling through. This concept did start to disintegrate fairly early on — in the first printing of Bobbs Merrill's "New Wizard of Oz", the text illustrations are all printing with either red or green as the second color. Later printings went back to the original format, but when Donohue started producing their own copies, unrelated colors began to creep in. The Dover edition adds pink and aqua, and leaves out red, tan and brown. The 1973 Annotated Wizard reproduces the colors of the original very faithfully.Bill Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14258626254481978155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8342561433004208609.post-62895099680572724762009-03-16T00:34:00.000-05:002009-03-16T00:34:00.000-05:00This series on colors illustrations in the Oz book...This series on colors illustrations in the Oz books led me to search to my editions that use with color --- which turn out to be Dover trade paperback editions from the 1960's. <BR/><BR/>In the Dover editions of both "Wonderful Wizard" and "Marvelous Land", the color plates (which are grouped together in these editions) are a good match to the originals, as shown on your blog, and in my copy of Michael Hearn's "Annotated Wizard" from 1973. But when I compared the page you show from "Wonderful Wizard" in your "Oz Color" posting, I see that Dover has chosen a blue-green ink for that page --- although they use a standard green elsewhere in the book. <BR/><BR/>Did the original Geo. M. Hill edition use two different shades of green?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8342561433004208609.post-2042704230185260272009-03-15T03:41:00.000-05:002009-03-15T03:41:00.000-05:00Again, great post. In the second "Ozma shut her e...Again, great post. In the second "Ozma shut her eyes tightly and advanced" plate it looks like she has a spray-on tan!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com