Description
No Jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added. The Good+ binding is green cloth over boards, gilt stamping on the cover and on the spine, some soiling, shelf-wear, wear at the head and foot of the spine, corner bumping, pictorial end papers. Ink writing dated on the front pastedown, front free endpaper is missing. Untrimmed fore-edge. The binding is tight and pages are clean. Exquisite tipped-in color frontispiece and fifteen tipped-in color plates by Edmund Dulac.
About the illustrator:
Edmund Dulac (born Edmond Dulac; October 22, 1882 – May 25, 1953) was a French-born, British naturalized magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. Born in Toulouse he studied law but later turned to the study of art at the École des Beaux-Arts. He moved to London early in the 20th century and in 1905 received his first commission to illustrate the novels of the Brontë Sisters. He began an association with the Leicester Galleries and Hodder & Stoughton; the gallery commissioned illustrations from Dulac which they sold in an annual exhibition, while publishing rights to the paintings were taken up by Hodder & Stoughton for reproduction in illustrated gift books, publishing one book a year. Books produced under this arrangement by Dulac include Stories from The Arabian Nights (1907) with 50 color images; an edition of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1908) with 40 color illustrations; The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1909) with 20 color images; The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales (1910); Stories from Hans Christian Andersen (1911); The Bells and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe (1912) with 28 color images and many monotone illustrations; and Princess Badoura (1913). Wikipedia
