Description
No Jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added. The Very Good binding is black cloth over boards, pasted-on illustration on the cover with red lettering, yellow lettering on the spine, small scuff in upper right corner of paste-on. pictorial endpapers. The binding is tight and pages are clean. Eight fabulous Dulac color plates can be found throughout the book.
About the illustrator:
Edmund Dulac (October 22, 1882 – May 25, 1953) was a French-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. Wikipedia
About the publisher:
Garden City Publishing Co. was originally established as a separate firm by Nelson Doubleday, Garden City’s books were primarily reprints of books first offered by Doubleday, printed from the original plates but on less expensive paper. It was named for the village of the same name on Long Island in which Doubleday was long headquartered (until 1986). Wikipedia
