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. With thirteen tipped-in colour plates.
Edmund Dulac (1882-1923) was an eminent artist of the ‘Golden Age of Illustration’ that occurred during the early twentieth century. Born in France, Dulac studied law at the University of Toulouse, but later dropped his law studies in order to pursue his career as an artist. After briefly studying art in Paris at the Académie Julian, Dulac moved to London in 1904 where he was commissioned by J.M. Dent to illustrate the collected works of the Bronte sisters.
Some of Dulac’s most famously illustrated books include The Arabian Nights, The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayámm, Sinbad and the Sailor, The Sleeping Beauty, The Bells and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe, and Stories from Hans Christian Andersen. As Dulac continued illustrating, the influence of Orientalism became more pronounced in his work, infusing his palette with brighter coloration; this style won him praise for its exquisite use of detail and hue. After the First World War Dulac found work as a set designer, as well as designing postage stamps, bookplates, and theatre graphics.
Reference: Simon Houfe, British Illustrators and Caricaturists, 290. Ann Hughey, Edmund Dulac - His Book Illustrations: A Bibliography, 47a. www.arthistory.net.
Quarto (book size 28.3x22.3cm), pp. [10] 174 [2]. In publisher’s intricately gilt and brown decorated green cloth, rear panel blank. Condition: Very good, internally clean, a number of pages with corners chipped, in fine covers. Ref: 112275 Price: HK$ 2,500
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. With thirteen tipped-in colour plates.
Edmund Dulac (1882-1923) was an eminent artist of the ‘Golden Age of Illustration’ that occurred during the early twentieth century. Born in France, Dulac studied law at the University of Toulouse, but later dropped his law studies in order to pursue his career as an artist. After briefly studying art in Paris at the Académie Julian, Dulac moved to London in 1904 where he was commissioned by J.M. Dent to illustrate the collected works of the Bronte sisters.
Some of Dulac’s most famously illustrated books include The Arabian Nights, The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayámm, Sinbad and the Sailor, The Sleeping Beauty, The Bells and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe, and Stories from Hans Christian Andersen. As Dulac continued illustrating, the influence of Orientalism became more pronounced in his work, infusing his palette with brighter coloration; this style won him praise for its exquisite use of detail and hue. After the First World War Dulac found work as a set designer, as well as designing postage stamps, bookplates, and theatre graphics.
Reference: Simon Houfe, British Illustrators and Caricaturists, 290. Ann Hughey, Edmund Dulac - His Book Illustrations: A Bibliography, 47a. www.arthistory.net.
Quarto (book size 28.3x22.3cm), pp. [10] 174 [2]. In publisher’s intricately gilt and brown decorated green cloth, rear panel blank. Condition: Very good, internally clean, a number of pages with corners chipped, in fine covers. Ref: 112275 Price: HK$ 2,500