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Hardcover in jacket.

Reprint of the classic 1915 edition - done during the golden age of illustration.

New York: Doran, No date Ca 1924 1st US trade edition. large 4to (11.5 x 8.5 inches), Bound in full black cloth with full size black paper stamped in gilt. In generally good condition. Some rubbing to corners, spine lightly sunned with hinges a little split. A few faint scuffs on rear board. Small faint inscription on front endpaper. Some mild foxing and handling marks to pages, with a very faint odour, else a clean and tight copy. Plates clean and bright. 16 mounted colour plates and title page 174 pp. Chapter heads by another hand (FRB). Contents: Snegorotchak (Russian) / The Buried Moon (English) / White Caroline and Black Caroline (Flemish) / The Seven Conquerors of the Queen of the Mississippi (Belgian) / The Serpent Prince ( Italian) / The Hind of the Wood (French) / Ivan and the Chestnut Horse (Russian) / The Queen of the many-coloured Bedchamber (Irish) / The Blue bird (French) / Bashtchelik (or, Real Steel) (Serbian) / The Friar and the Boy (English) / The Green Serpent (French) / Urashima Taro ( Japanese) / The Fire Bird (Russian).

First edition. Binding a bit loose. Foxing on some pages. Beautiful illustrated (tipped in).

170 pp. Complete with color frontispiece and 14 tipped-in color plates. Folio, publisher's gilt-decorated cloth. First edition; No. 18 of 350 copies signed by Edmund Dulac. Hughey 47. The cloth is lightly dust-soiled but tight and sound. Pencil gift inscription on front free endpaper; and a bump at the top of the spine affects the inner marginal top corner throughout. The plates and text clean and fine.

1st 1916. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. De-luxe edition limited to only 350 signed and numbered copies. 15 glorious tipped-in colour plates mounted on vellum, each mount edged with gold. White cloth elaborately decorated with gilt to front cover and spine. Vellum endpapers. Deckled edges. 170 pages. 11.5 x 9". SIGNED by Dulac to verso of a free front endpaper. This is Copy No. 52. Spine and edges are browned. Bump to bottom of spine. Some grubby marks to cloth. Surface paper damage to front pastedown, where it appears that something has been removed (possibly a bookplate). Front endpaper has inscriptions in ink; one crossed out, with tape glue marks, where again it appears that something has been removed. Rear pastedown also has some surface paper damage. Edge tear to margin on one contents page. Some darkening and grubby margin marks to pages. All plates are present and beautifully bright. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

A Very Fine Example of The Edition de Luxe [DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book. Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d., 1916]. Limited to 350 numbered copies (of which this is no. 88), signed by the artist. Large quarto (11 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches; 285 x 225 mm.). [11], [1, blank], 169, [1], [1, blank], [1, printer's imprint] pp. Fifteen color plates, mounted on Japanese vellum, framed with wide gilt bands and with descriptive letterpress in black. Original white cloth pictorially stamped in gilt and blue to form a design of two leaping horses and scroll frame for gilt lettering (reproducing the design on the title-page) on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Minimal browning to endpapers. An exceptionally fine copy. "The tales of this book, both written and illustrated by Dulac, were drawn from the folklore of Russia, England, Flanders, Belgium, Italy, France, Ireland, Serbia and Japan. Dulac was able to employ the full scope of his versatility in creating a national mood in each illustration. During this period of his work, Dulac had immersed himself in the artistic traditions of folklore. He was partly stimulated by his friendship with Yeats (whose interest in Celtic folklore was legendary) and partly awakened to ethnic themes by his 1913 cruise through the eastern Mediterranean. Also at this time he was influenced by his encounters with the Russian-born designer Léon Bakst and Bakst's stage work for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes" (Hughey). Hughey 47.