Stories from Hans Andersen.

London: Hodder & Stoughton,, 1911. Sheer grace and poetry of feeling Signed limited edition, number 26 of 750 copies signed by the artist. "A really beautiful book, with illustrations of exceptional merit. As pictures for children nothing could be more attractive than Mr Dulac's watercolour drawings" (Review). A prospectus for the opening exhibition of the original artwork is loosely inserted. In an overview of the illustrated book market, one contemporary commentator stated that "for sheer grace and poetry of feeling I am inclined to give the palm to Mr Edmund Dulac. I doubt if Mr Dulac has ever done better work as a book-illustrator than he has put into the series of colour-plates with which he has illustrated Hans Andersen" (Art and Literature, December 1911). Quarto. Original vellum, spine lettered and stamped with decorative device in gilt, front cover with twin fillet and decorative border enclosing lettering and pictorial device in gilt, illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, silk ties renewed. Colour frontispiece, with captioned tissue guard, and 27 colour plates with captions printed on facing leaves, all tipped inside green frames, as issued, by Dulac. Text printed within green borders with floral head- and tailpieces throughout. Finely etched chivalric knight bookplate of Walter Seawell Ward (1847-1919), a Bradford tailor and sidesman at Ascension Church Balham. Gilt and vellum bright, notwithstanding natural discolouration to spine and green marks to rear joint, occasional faint browning to contents, illustrations unaffected. A near-fine copy. Hughey 27a. Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, 10 December 1911.