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(Description)

Author: Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, EDMUND DULAC (illustrator).
Title: SLEEPING BEAUTY and Other Fairy Tales From the Old French.
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton, no date (1910). First Edition.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 11 " X 9 ".
Pages: 128  pages.
Binding: Attractive and near fine original imitation pebbled leather cloth elaborately gilt-decorated binding (hinges fine - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. A rare find in such a nice condition!
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing & toning - mainly on endpapers - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the wonderful 30 color plates by EDMUND DULAC.

Estimate: (USD 700 - USD 1000)

The book: Attractive and exquisite first edition of those beautifully illustrated Fairy tales by Edmund Dulac including The Sleeping Beauty, Blue Beard, Cinderella, and Beauty and the Beast.

The illustrator: Edmund Dulac (born Edmond Dulac; October 22, 1882 – May 25, 1953) was a French-born, British naturalised 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. During World War I, Dulac produced relief books and when after the war the deluxe children's book market shrank he turned to magazine illustrations among other ventures. He designed banknotes during World War II and postage stamps, most notably those that heralded the beginning of Queen Elizabeth II's reign.