Lot 39
  • 39

Dulac, Edmund--Quiller-Couch, Arthur

Estimate
700 - 900 GBP
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Description

  • Dulac, Edmund--Quiller-Couch, Arthur
  • The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1910]
  • PAPER
4to (310 x 250mm.), NUMBER 55 OF 1000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, 30 coloured plates and other illustrations by Edmund Dulac, original pictorial morocco gilt, top edge gilt, short crease to one plate, browning to endpapers, head and foot of spine slightly bumped

Literature

Hughey 23

Condition

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Catalogue Note

One of the artist's triumphs in illustrated books. This copy includes the advertisement leaf for Dulac's 1910 Leicester Galleries exhibition in addition to a four page publisher's catalogue entitled Hodder and Stoughton's Beautiful Books.