Bookplate of Edgar Rice Burroughs with Tarzan and his ape cheetah
by Peter Ogden
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Bookplate of Edgar Rice Burroughs with Tarzan and his ape cheetah
Artist
Peter Ogden
Medium
Drawing - Lithograph
Description
This is a restored copy of the personal bookplate Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan of the Apes. The early vintage Art Deco style bookplate image which includes Martians also depicts Tarzan holding the planet mars while standing next to his pet chimpanzee, Cheetah. The design also includes characters from other Burroughs stories. This bookplate was designed by Burrough's nephew Studley Burroughs [1892-1949] circa 1918 and before 1922 as documented in a famous letter from Edgar describing the bookplate..
Tarzan is the only son of British aristocrats who were shipwrecked on the west African coast by mutineers. Tarzan's mother died when he was a small child and his father was murdered by Kerchak, head of an ape tribe that adopted Tarzan.
After the death of his parents Tarzan became a wild child living with his ape tribe, the Mangani, Great Apes of a mysterious unknown species. Tarzan's Mangari ape mother is Kala. Edgar Burroughs later wrote stories of Tarzan's youth in his sixth Tarzan book, Jungle Tales of Tarzan.
Tarzan is his Mangari name. Tarzan's British name was John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke (per Burroughs in Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle; Earl of Greystoke and in the 1984 movie Greystoke). Edgar Burroughs's story teller in Tarzan of the Apes recounts that Greystroke and Clayton are assumed names suggesting that, in the fictional universe where Tarzan lives, he might have some other real name.
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November 30th, 2019
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