1927 Rare Book - EDMUND DULAC'S SLEEPING BEAUTY and Other Fairy Tales

 

Author : Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, EDMUND DULAC
Title : SLEEPING BEAUTY and Other Fairy Tales
Publisher : London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date (circa 1927). With the reverse of the Title Page are the printer's details which reads: "Made and printed in Great Britain for Hodder & Stoughton, Limited By C. Tinling & Co. Ltd. Liverpool, London and Prescot. Pictures in Colour printed by Henry Stone & Son, Ltd. Banbury" corresponding with Hughey's edition 23k.
Language : Text in English
Size : 9 " X 6.5 "
Pages : 165 pages
Binding : Attractive fine half leather binding (hinges fine) under a protective removable mylar cover. A fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. 
Content : Very good content (bright, tight and clean, ex libris of a previous owner on first endpaper).
Illustrations : Illustrated with with 15 beautiful colour plates by EDMUND DULAC.

The book : Attractive edition of those illustrated Fairy tales by Edmund Dulac. (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.