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. Hodder & Stoughton 1st limited edition, numbered 343/350, signed by Dulac on end paper, with colour plates, light fading to decoartive boards, light age toning to end papers & pages, rought cut pages, no markings, binding tight, very slight bow to cover, Professional booksellers since 1981�x

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.

SIGNED/LIMITED EDITION. A beautiful copy SIGNED by Edmund Dulac. The book is bound in the ORIGINAL Vellum Cloth from the publisher. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning. The boards have minor discoloration and light wear to the spine. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A sharp copy SIGNED by Dulac of this edition of 350 copies printed. We buy SIGNED Dulac First Editions.