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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914. About fine.. Signed limited edition, one of only 500 numbered copies signed by Dulac. A most sumptuous and beautiful book, this is an outstanding copy. Very scarce in the limited edition. 11.25'' x 9''. Original full vellum with elaborate gilt decorations on cover and spine. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut, ties renewed. 23 tipped-in color plates on gilt decorated mounts with lettered guards and with gilt decorations and borders on text pages. [4], 222, [2] pages. The most minimal cover soil.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1907. Fine.. Signed limited edition, one of only 350 numbered copies signed by Dulac, of the book that launched his career with gift-book publisher Hodder & Stoughton, a beautiful copy. Dulac was only 25 years old when he was given the opportunity to illustrated this deluxe edition of the ARABIAN NIGHTS for the gift market. It was Dulac's first collaboration with Hodder & Stoughton; the book's robust sales led to a long partnership with the publisher to create an annual deluxe illustrated edition of a classic title for the holiday season. Thus this book can be said to have launched Dulac's career as one of the most respected artists of the Golden Age of Illustration. The frontispiece illustration of Scheherazade is especially striking. A very scarce Dulac limited edition. Quarto. 10.5'' x 8.75''. Original full gilt-stamped vellum. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut, brown heavy stock endpapers. Frontispiece and 49 tipped-in color plates on brown heavy stock at the back of… Read More

[DULAC, Edmund]. Stories from the Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Housman. With Drawings by Edmund Dulac. London: Hodder and Stoughton [1907]. 4to, xvi 133pp. Brown cloth decoratively stamped in gilt and black. Gray endpapers; 50 hand-mounted color plates with captioned tissue-guards. Spine ends and corners a bit rubbed, slight indent at top center of front cover, small closed tear at center of spine, upper edge of sheets a tad foxed, else an internally clean, bright copy with all plates sharp in publisher's original dust jacket (some wear to edge, spine panel a bit sunned). Rare in jacket!
First edition. Housman's brilliant retelling of these beloved stories from The Tales of 1001 Nights, are stunningly captured and brought to life through vibrant and expressive color plates by the incomparable Edmund Dulac. The first of Dulac's profusely illustrated books – having 50 mounted color plates – issued as a result of the enormous success of Rackham's Rip Van Winkle and Peter Pan in Kensington… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 4to (26 x 31). No Date. (1909). Signed Limited Edition of 500 copies of which this is number 181signed by Dulac. With 23 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards. Original Publisher's full vellum, with gilt decoration and lettering, very good with minimal wear, slight rubbing to edges, vellum has developed a slight patina, ribbon ties missing. Original decorated endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, paper slightly toned, all plates and tissue guards in very good condition without creases or folds; uncut edges a little dust soiled, paper crisp and appears unread. A very good copy of this superb limited edition..

London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Some darkening to vellum covers, commensurate with age. Silk ribbon marker detached but loosely laid-in. Contents clean and tight. Teg - remaining edges uncut. [1909]. Limited Edition [179/500]. Cream hardback vellum cover with gilt decoration. 300mm x 240mm (12" x 9"). 222pp. 23 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards. Signed by the illustrator on the limitation page. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. .

London: Hodder & Stoughton A very good boxed copy of the 1st trade edition in the original decorative cloth binding with 23 tipped-in colour plates, black and white illustrations and designs by Edmund Dulac. Undated but 1914. Unusually this copy is in its original box and wrap. The box has titles and a pasted plate to the top of the lid and titles to the side. It has some browning and a little grubbiness and some repair at corners. The book is in its original film wrap. The light brown cloth binding has a printed flower design (which continues on the endpapers) overlaid with gilt decoration and titles on the front board and spine. This copy has bright decoration to the front board with light corner wear and a couple of very small marks. The spine is bright with light wear to spine ends. The back board is bright with a small spot and light wear to corners. There is some spotting to the foredge and darkening to bottom page edges. Internally, the floral endpapers are unmarked. Contents: frontispiece;… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1907. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto (oversized). Limited edition, 173/350 copies. Decorated vellum binding. SIGNED by Dulac on limitation page. All illustrations after the text, instead of on various pages as the table of contents suggests. Vellum binding curves at edges. Missing silk ties. Bookplate removed at first pastedown. 6 of the most famous tales, illustrated by one of the great turn of the century book illustrators.

London: Hodder & Stoughton,, [1914]. Pictures which preserve to a marvel the Persian feeling" (Times Literary Supplement) First Dulac trade edition, first impression. There was also a deluxe edition of 500 signed copies bound in vellum. Hughey notes that "the Sindbad pictures... stand almost as a hallmark of one very persistent technique among his ever-evolving styles". "The exotic stories he illustrated struck a new chord in Dulac. They allowed him to enlarge his skill at caricature, and at the same time to sharpen his miniaturist's technique and to develop his lyrical sense of tone and composition. The sources he turned to were Japanese prints, which he had studied in his youth, with their flat colour and asymmetry, and the high detail and colour of Indian and Persian miniatures" (ODNB). Quarto. Original pictorial tan cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt with elaborate blue and gilt design, floral patterned brown endpapers. Colour frontispiece and 22 coloured plates mounted on paper with… Read More

New York & London: Charles Scribner's Sons & Hodder and Stoughton, 1907. Very good.. First American edition of this beautiful Dulac work, the book that launched his career with gift-book publisher Hodder & Stoughton, identical to the British edition except for the publisher's imprint. Dulac was only 25 years old when he was given the opportunity to illustrated an edition of the ARABIAN NIGHTS for the gift market. It was Dulac's first collaboration with Hodder & Stoughton; the book's robust sales led to a long partnership with the publisher to create an annual illustrated versions of classic titles for the holiday season. Thus this book can be said to have launched Dulac's career as one of the most respected artists of the Golden Age of Illustration. The frontispiece illustration of Scheherazade is especially striking. A nice copy of an increasingly scarce book. 9.5'' x 7.25''. Original gilt decorative cloth. 50 tipped-in color plates mounted on dark paper at the the back of the book as issued. xvi,… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton Publishers (1907), 1907. First UK trade edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to. [2], v-xvi, 1-133, [3] pp. Half later red morocco over the original orange cloth boards with gilt lettering and a gilt decoration on the front board, spine in six compartments with gilt rules and lettering; all edges grey. Rebound without the half-title page. Title page printed in orange and black with an orange drawing. Illustrated with 50 mounted color plates (on grey paper) with printed tissue guards, plates done by the incomparable Edmund Dulac. All plates except for the frontispiece gathered at the end of the volume. Hughey 16a. Hughey refers to this book as Dulac's most important, and references a review that states "those fifty colour illustrations ... will soon be the talk of the literary and artistic world". According to Hughey, The New York Times called this work "indescribably quaint and bewitching". A sharp copy of an Anglicanized version of the Arabian Nights, with the words on the… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, N.D. ca. 1907. First Edition of the Large Paper Issue with the plates interspersed throughout the text. With the full complement of all 50 tipped-in color plates by Edmund Dulac. Large 4to, in the publisher’s original rust-colored cloth lettered and pictorially decorated in beautiful Arabian style in gilt and dark blue on the spine and upper cover. With the original dustjacket upper cover tipped inside. xvi, 133 pp. A beautiful copy, unusually well preserved and fine, the plates pristine and perfect, the text fresh, the cloth bright, a bit of breakage at the join of the free-fly and pastedown. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED BY EDMUND DULAC. Here we find a collection of stories from the ARABIAN NIGHTS superbly illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Dulac's illustrations conjure the mysterious atmosphere of the oriental text and transport the reader to a lyrical world of grace and beauty. Dulac’s affinity for oriental design becomes apparent in the exquisite, almost… Read More

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1907. 4to, 133pp text followed by 50 tipped in colour plates. A very good hardback copy in gilt stamped vellum boards lacking ribbon ties. Bookplate of Kingsley Norris on endpaper. Boards foxed with discoloured spine. Intermittent foxing. . Number 224 of 350 copies signed by Edmund Dulac.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1907]. [Children's Illustrated] DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION, with 50 colour plates. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.136 plus plates. Publisher's original russet cloth pictorially stamped in blue and gilt. Original printed brown dust-wrapper with colour plate illustration laid down to upper. Contents clean, no names. Minor toning to edges. Fragile jacket with a few chips/edge tears, toned to extremities, larger chips to head of spine, browned to same. This is the version with the plates mounted on cream card and interspersed throughout the text; another exists with plated on grey card collected at the rear. Rare in jacket (no other copy of this issue at the time of writing).

E-007: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good. 1907. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Hodder and Stoughton, London. No Date. (1907). Xvi + 133, illustrated with frontispiece and 49 tipped-in coloured plates with captioned tissue-guards. Bound in decorated red cloth boards with gilt and green titles present to the front board and the spine. Boards have some light shelfwear present. Light offsetting present to the title page. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This fantastic volume contains English-language retellings of stories from “One Thousand and One Nights”, a collection of South Asian and Middle Eastern folk tales compiled during the Islamic Golden Age. E-007; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 133 pages .

E-007: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good. N.D.. Hardcover. Hardcover. Folio. Hodder & Stoughton. No Date (1914). 222 pgs. Illustrated with all 23 tipped in color plates. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in tan and indigo blue flowered cloth, stamped with gilt lettering and a ship design, tan and indigo flowered endpapers, title page with mock Arabic lettering and a vignette mirroring the front board. Bound in decorated cloth boards with gilt titles present. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Small stain present to the half-title page and to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. First trade edition of Edmund Dulac's Sindbad the Sailor; also included are Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, The Story of the Three Calendars, and The Sleeper Awakened. E-007; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 222 pages .

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1918. Later edition. Re-Issue Wartime Trade Edition (issued December 1918). Publisher's wartime binding of blue-gray papered boards with white parchment spine and corner tips. Spine with original dark blue morocco label lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. A near fine copy in the scarce white paper dust jacket, lettered in black on the spine. Collating [ii], vi, 7-221, [2], [1, blank]. Twenty-three color plates mounted on cream stock with decorative border, captioned tissue guards. All text leaves with title-page border design printed in tan and black. "In some of the pictures for this book Dulac continues with the Chinese style developed for Princess Badoura the year before. In others, he reduces the scale and adds a richness of detail to create an effect similar to that seen in Perian and Indian miniature art. The pictures are generally serious but Dulac's ever-present humor creeps in" (Hughey). In this sense, a beautiful encapsulation of the illustrator's… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914. First trade edition. Publisher's tan cloth, front cover and spine pictorially stamped in blue and gilt, tan and blue decorated end-papers. Minimal foxing to half-title otherwise a near fine copy. Twenty-three color plates mounted on cream stock with decorative border, captioned tissue guards. "In some of the pictures for this book Dulac continues with the Chinese style developed for Princess Badoura the year before. In others, he reduces the scale and adds a richness of detail to create an effect similar to that seen in Persian and Indian miniature art. The pictures are generally serious but Dulac's ever-present humor creeps in" (Hughey). Hughey 35a.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1907). First edition thus. 3/4 calf and marbled boards. Fine. 133p quarto, illustrated with 50 tipped in color plates. A fine copy bound in 3/4 brown calf and marbled boards. Tipped into the front fly leaf on Edmund Dulac's stationary "with compliments Edmund Dulac"

Not Available, N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition.

London & New York: Hodder and Stoughton and Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. First edition, with the title-page imprint added for America but with the same sheets that were printed in England by Butler and Tanner and used for the first English issue. With 50 fine tipped-in colour plates by Edmund Dulac. The plates tipped to heavy green-gray stock, each with a captioned tissue-guard. 4to, original rust-colored cloth lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt and black on the spine and upper cover in Arabian motif. 133 pp. text + 50 tipped in plates on heavy mounting paper. A good and honest copy, the plates are all pristine and very fine, though a few of the mounting pages have a small bump at the edge, the text is quite clean, the text-block is solid though slightly shaken, the binding is still quite attractive though with a bit of age and some light edge wear on occasion, still handsome and well preserved and a very decent copy of this fine book, beautifully illustrated. BEAUTIFULLY… Read More