Author: A. T. Quiller-Couch
Title: The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French
Description: London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1910]. First edition. Cloth. Edmund Dulac's stunning illustrated edition of the beloved fairy tale 'The Sleeping Beauty', among other famous tales, with Dulac's brilliant colour plates. The first trade edition of this Edmund Dulac illustrated edition. Also published as a limited signed edition in the same year. Illustrated with a colour tipped in frontispiece and twenty-nine tipped in colour plates. Collated, complete. A collection of popular fairy tales re-told by Arthur Quiller-Couch, including tales such as 'The Sleeping Beauty', 'Cinderella' and 'Blue Beard', beautifully illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Dulac is a celebrated French-British illustrator remembered for his illustrations to works of classic literature, as well as designing banknotes and postage stamps during World War II, most notable of which were those that heralded the beginning of Queen Elizabeth II's reign. Produced as part of an association with Leicester Galleries and Hodder & Stoughton, where Hodder had the publishing rights to Dulac's paintings, publishing illustrated gift books once a year, with this being of these decorative and beautifully illustrated gift books. Bound in full decorative cloth. Undated, dated by copies held institutionally. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally very smart with minimal wear to the extremities. Front hinge tender, rear starting, with offsetting to the endpapers, and an owner's signature to the front. Internally firmly bound with lightly age toned pages and occasional light spotting, heavier to the front and the rear. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Edmund Dulac. Very Good Indeed .
Keywords: Edmund Dulac Illustrated Fairy Tales Sleeping beauty Illustrated Edmund Dulac
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Title: The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French
Description: London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1910]. First edition. Cloth. Edmund Dulac's stunning illustrated edition of the beloved fairy tale 'The Sleeping Beauty', among other famous tales, with Dulac's brilliant colour plates. The first trade edition of this Edmund Dulac illustrated edition. Also published as a limited signed edition in the same year. Illustrated with a colour tipped in frontispiece and twenty-nine tipped in colour plates. Collated, complete. A collection of popular fairy tales re-told by Arthur Quiller-Couch, including tales such as 'The Sleeping Beauty', 'Cinderella' and 'Blue Beard', beautifully illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Dulac is a celebrated French-British illustrator remembered for his illustrations to works of classic literature, as well as designing banknotes and postage stamps during World War II, most notable of which were those that heralded the beginning of Queen Elizabeth II's reign. Produced as part of an association with Leicester Galleries and Hodder & Stoughton, where Hodder had the publishing rights to Dulac's paintings, publishing illustrated gift books once a year, with this being of these decorative and beautifully illustrated gift books. Bound in full decorative cloth. Undated, dated by copies held institutionally. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally very smart with minimal wear to the extremities. Front hinge tender, rear starting, with offsetting to the endpapers, and an owner's signature to the front. Internally firmly bound with lightly age toned pages and occasional light spotting, heavier to the front and the rear. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Edmund Dulac. Very Good Indeed .
Keywords: Edmund Dulac Illustrated Fairy Tales Sleeping beauty Illustrated Edmund Dulac
Price: GBP 550.00 = appr. US$ 785.39 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 955Z7
- Book number: 955Z7
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