1910 Rare Book - The Sleeping Beauty & Other Fairy Tales Illustrated by Edmund Dulac

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Author : Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, EDMUND DULAC (illustrator).
Title : SLEEPING BEAUTY and Other Fairy Tale From the Old French.
Publisher : London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date (circa 1910). 
Language : Text in English
Size : 11 " X 9 "
Pages : 128  pages
Binding : Attractive fine imitation pebbled leather cloth elaborately gilt decorated binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. 
Content : Very good content (bright, tight and clean, some creasing to a few illustrations - as shown).
Illustrations : Illustrated with 30 beautiful color plates by EDMUND DULAC.

Estimate : (USD 350 - USD 550)

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.