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Edmund Dulac

Arthur Quiller-Couch (retold by): The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales from the Old French. London: Hodder & Stoughton [no date]. Large 4to. With 30 illustrations by Edmund Dulac throughout, all tipped-in with descriptive titles printed underneath. With the book plate of “Biblioteca Tegneriana”. Bound in publisher's binding. No d/w. Minor wear.

The French artist Edmund Dulac is one of the five major Golden Age gift book illustrators (together with Arthur Rackham, Charles and Heath Robinson and Danish artist Kay Nielsen (1886–1957) ). He was influenced by the styles of Beardsley, Burne-Jones and the Japanese art.

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Books and manuscripts, 2 October 2012

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1,500 DKK

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