Dulac, Edmund--Stevenson, Robert Louis

4to (239 x 180mm.), NUMBER 9 OF 50 COPIES SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE ARTIST, 12 coloured plates and other illustrations by Edmund Dulac, original vellum with lettering piece on spine, top edge gilt, collector's chemise and slipcase, library bookplate, perforated library stamps to some pages (including title-page), binding slightly scratched, crease to front fixed endpaper

Hughey 72

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate. In addition, to these, the volume is internally clean with the exception of library stamps, including perforated stamps. There are both perforated stamps and ink stamps to the title-page. There are some minor creases to the endpapers. There is a library bookplate to the front fixed endpaper. The binding is sound with standard variation in colour to the vellum. There is some very slight wear to the spine label.
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Writing of Dulac's edition in his bibliography of the artist, Ann Conolly Hughey states that the watercolours "...show a new Dulac style... The detailing and design of the pictures present some of Dulac's most careful and superb painting. He himself like these illustrations best of all his work."