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Jun 3, 2023
Lot of 5 books illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Full list of titles:
1. Shakespeare's Comedy of The Tempest with illustrations by Edmund Dulac
New York and London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date.First Trade Edition with Dulac's Illustrations.
25cm x 18cm. xxiv, 144 pages, 40 tipped in colour plates. Green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration, no jacket.
Minor splitting at rubbing to joints and corners. Front free endpaper removed. Foxing to edges and first and last pages. Bump to tail fore-edge corner of last few leaves. Good Condition.
2. The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales from the Old French Retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1981.
New Edition.26cm x 20cm. [xviii], 130 pages, 30 tipped in colour plates. Full leather, gilt lettering and decoration, original jacket wrapper.
Foxing to edges. Shelf wear with some creasing and small chips and tears to jacket. Very Good Condition.
3. Stories from the Arabian Nights Retold by Laurence Housman with Drawings by Edmund Dulac
Nottingham: Hodder and Stoughton for Boots Pure Drug Co, no date.
25.5cm x 19cm. 320 pages, 20 tipped in colour plates. Brown decorative cloth, illustrated jacket.
Front free endpaper removed. Minor foxing. Jacket shelf worn, tanned, chips and tears. Good Condition.
4. Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book: Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations
London, New York, Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton, no date.
28cm x 21.5cm. [ix], 170 pages, 15 colour plates (14 tipped in). Illustrated cloth, no jacket.
This copy with the bookplate of Margaret Duckett, Preston. Worn and bumped. Cracking, intact but tender.
5. Edmund Dulac's Picture-Book for the French Red Cross
London: For The Daily Telegraph by Hodder & Stoughton, no date. (Previous owner's inscription, dated 1915)
28cm x 22cm. [viii], 136 pages, 19 tipped in colour plates, 1 photographic portrait plate. Illustrated cloth, illustrated jacket.
Foxing. Previous owner's inscription. Jacket worn, chips and tears. Good Condition.
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