Edmund Dulac's Fairy-book - Fairy tales of the allied nations

Features

Author:  Edmund Dulac

Publisher:  Hodder & Stoughton

Place of printing:  London, New York, Toronto

Year of publication:  s.d.

Product Condition:
Specimen in good condition. Clothed editorial binding with figured engravings and gilded titles on the spine and on the front plate; slightly faded back, bruised headphones; traces of dust on the plates, edges and corners slightly peeled; skinning to the rear plate. Loose binding. Burnished cuts with dust spots; head cuts are particularly darkened. Well preserved, slightly burnished papers. The plate on page 144 with relative tissue is detached. English text. Text in English. Book in good condition.

Pages:  (10), 173, (3)

Format:  In fourth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  28
Width:  22

Description

This elegant volume collects a series of fairy tales from different countries of the world illustrated by 16 color plates applied on strong paper and protected by Edmund Dulac's tissues. This French illustrator, but naturalized English, moved to London in 1904 where he established himself with his talent in what was at the time the center of the publishing world linked to illustration. In his style we find echoes of Japanese prints and the oriental world fused with the influences of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and the contemporary Viennese painting of Gustav Klimt. In particular, in our volume, Dulac's unmistakable style adapts to the stylistic features of the traditions of origin of fairy tales, in a truly effective exercise of compositional virtuosity.

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