1920 Rare First Edition - MY DAYS WITH THE FAIRIES illustrated by EDMUND DULAC.
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Author: Mrs. Rodolph Stawell (Maud Margaret Key Stawell). Edmund Dulac (illustrator).
Title: My Days with the Fairies: A New and Enlarged Edition of "Fairies I Have Met".
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton, Limited, no date (1920). First Edition of My Days with the Fairies being a new and enlarged edition of "Fairies I Have Met".
Language: Text in English.
Size: 10 " X 8 ".
Pages: 169 pages.
Binding: Attractive and fine quarter red morocco leather binding finely bound with gilt titles and decoration to spine, raised bands (hinges fine) under a protective removable mylar cover. A beautiful binding for a wonderful book!
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, some light foxing - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with 8 beautiful color plates mounted on large tan textured pages mounts with red line frames. All tissue guards with green letterpress titles and drawings of a fairy present. Wonderfull illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Estimate: (USD 1300 - USD 1500)
The book: Beautiful First edition of "My Days with the Fairies" illustrated by EDMUND DULAC in a fine morocco binding!
The illustrator: Edmund Dulac (born Edmond Dulac; October 22, 1882 – May 25, 1953) was a French-born, British naturalized 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.