Author: Edmund Dulac
Title: Edmund Dulac&Apos;S Picture-Book for the Red Cross
Description: London, The Daily Telegraph; Hodder and Stoughton, 1915. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this colourfully illustrated anthology of short stories, published for the French Red Cross during World War One by Edmund Dulac. The first edition of this work.A charming volume of fairy tales for children by Edmund Dulac, including 'The Story of the Bird Feny', 'The Little Seamstress', 'Cinderella', 'Cerberus, the Black Dog of Hades,' 'The Lady Badoura', and more.Published for the French Red Cross during the First World War, to whom the profits from sales of the work were donated.Illustrated with a tipped-in colour frontispiece, and nineteen tipped-in colour plates.Collated, complete.Dulac is a well regarded illustrator of magazines and books, known in particular for his editions of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, and 'The Rubaiyat&apos. His style is mostly Art Nouveau, and his illustrations of fairy tales have remained very popular. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. A few minor marks to the boards and spine. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spine is a little faded. Spots to the endpapers. Bookseller's label to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the occasional scattered spot. Very Good . Ill.: Edmund Dulac. Very Good .

Keywords: Edmund Dulac's Picture-Book For the Red Cross edmund dulac red cross first world war edmund dulac Edmund Dulac


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