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Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book - Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations -
Edmund Dulac
1916 - Hodder & Stoughton, London - First Trade Edition
First edition of Dulac’s large and beautifully illustrated ‘Fairy-Book’, with tales drawn from Russia, England, Flanders, Belgium, Italy, France, Ireland, Serbia and Japan. In the original beautifully gilt decorated cloth covers.
Dulac ‘was partly stimulated by his friendship with Yeats (whose interest in Celtic folklore was legendary) and partly awakened to ethnic themes by his 1913 cruise through the eastern Mediterranean. Also at this time he was influenced by his encounters with the Russian-born designer Léon Bakst and Bakst's stage work for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes’ – Ann Hughey, Edmund Dulac - His Book Illustrations.
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1916 - Hodder & Stoughton, London - First Trade Edition
First edition of Dulac’s large and beautifully illustrated ‘Fairy-Book’, with tales drawn from Russia, England, Flanders, Belgium, Italy, France, Ireland, Serbia and Japan. In the original beautifully gilt decorated cloth covers.Dulac ‘was partly stimulated by his friendship with Yeats (whose interest in Celtic folklore was legendary) and partly awakened to ethnic themes by his 1913 cruise through the eastern Mediterranean. Also at this time he was influenced by his encounters with the Russian-born designer Léon Bakst and Bakst's stage work for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes’ – Ann Hughey, Edmund Dulac - His Book Illustrations.
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Price HK$ 2,500