Andersen Hans Dulac Edmund Illus (10 results)

47 pp. With four color plates by Edmund Dulac. 12mo, publisher's color illustrated boards. Top of spine chipped; rear joint starting to split; light dust-soiling.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. - Text in Dutch - Illustrated boards a little tanned and marked w/ spine toned - Cover edges rubbed - Numerous chips w/ boards exposed a joints, spine ends, edges and corners - Edges rubbed w/ corners bumped - Lettering and gilt decoration faded - Edges of text block tanned w/ top edge most affected - Content foxed and tanned - Contemporary previous owner name and date in ink to top corner of front free endpaper w/ smudge opposite - Book ow/ solid, clean and tight 172 pages. SMALL QUARTO.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Hard cover book in good condition with dust jacket in poor condition. Numerous tears and chips to all edges of jacket particularly to head and tail of spine and corners. Large tear to rear of jacket from foot. Discolouration to jacket with creasing to all edges. Minor bumps to head and tail of spine and corners. Royal blue boards with gilt lettering to spine. Spotting to all edges of text block. Foxing to endpapers and some foxing to lightly tanned pages throughout. Rear hinge cracked. Small inscription on front free endpaper. Large 8vo. 195pp with 14 tipped-in colour plates with tissue guards. One guard detached but present.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover, 132 pages. Bound in textured white/ivory cloth with gold lettering and black illustration stamped on the cover. 7.5" x 10". 12 full color plates b Edmund Dulac tipped in. Pages slightly faded from age, but good and clean and square. Binding good and tight. Remains of a child's pencil inscription on the front endpaper, now all-but-erased. White cover is dusty and darkened from use, which I expect is normal for a bindings of this color. No date printed in the book.

Green hardback cloth cover. First Trade Edition. 290mm x 230mm (11" x 9"). viii, 250pp. 28 laid-in colour plates. Dulac (b.1882) studied at Académie Julian, in Paris before moving to London in 1906. He worked as an illustrator, portrait painter and costume designer being influenced by Middle and Far Eastern cultures. Heavy book- extra shipping needed for overseas. G: in good condition without dust jacket. Spine browned and slightly mottled. Cover marked. Inner hinge cracking. Sporadic foxing. Browning to fore edge. Edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+ in Fair DJ. Second Edition. Second Edition. Hardcover. Widely considered one of Dulac's best works. Though obviously flawed, the presence of [most of] the very scarce DJ is quite unusual. Overall, a handsome copy of this significant work. Minor shelf/edge wear, touch of glue toning at preliminaries, minor foxing at textblock fore-edge (non-penetrating), else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows heavy shelf wear, rear panel and flap missing, large chip at head (effecting title text, several small chips and closed tears, even toning, else clean and bright (color pictorial only by Dulac shows no rubbing or wear). Mustard/beige cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, decorative endpages, frontispiece, decorative boarders at each page, tipped in plates. Small 4to. 250pp. Illus. (color plates).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Edition de Luxe. Large 4to. viii, 250, (ii)pp. Color frontispiece. 27 color plates, tipped-in, with descriptive tissue guard printed in black. Original decorated full vellum, very slightly worn, with silk ties renewed. With red cloth slipcase. Ex-libris put on front end-paper. Limited to 750 copies, this is No. 736, signed by the artist.

Signed limited edition, number 393 of 750 copies signed by the artist. The previous owner, Amanda Severne (1954-2008) of Shakenhurst Hall, Cleobury Mortimer, was herself a book illustrator and also worked in the animation business. She was a "key renderer" on Raymond Briggs's 1982 animated version of The Snowman. A review of the illustrated books of 1911 published in Art and Literature (December 1911) found one reviewer stating "in certain qualities of fantasy and delicate strength, and lurid, imaginative daring, Mr Rackham and Mr Pogany are. inimitable, but 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.". The reviewer in the Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art (10 December 1911) stated simply that this was "a really beautiful book, with illustrations of exceptional merit. As pictures for children nothing could be more attractive than Mr Dulac's watercolour drawings". Hughey 27a. Quarto. Original vellum, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, decorative endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece and 27 mounted colour plates by Edmund Dulac. Bookseller's label, and bookplate of Cecily Mary Severne to front pastedown, and that of Amanda Caroline Severne to front free endpaper. Binding slightly toned with front cover slightly bowed, lacking ties, light toning to free endpapers, occasional offsetting, occasional finger-soiling; a very good copy with bright uncreased plates.

First English trade edition. The collection comprises six stories: "The Snow Queen", "The Swineherd", "The Nightingale", "The Real Princess", "The Emperor's New Clothes", and "The Mermaid". A review of the illustrated books of 1911 published in Art and Literature (December 1911) found one reviewer stating "In certain qualities of fantasy and delicate strength, and lurid, imaginative daring, Mr Rackham and Mr Pogany are. inimitable, but 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." The reviewer in the Saturday review of politics, literature, science and art (10 December 1911) stated simply that this was "a really beautiful book, with illustrations of exceptional merit. As pictures for children nothing could be more attractive than Mr Dulac's watercolour drawings". Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco,spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, pictorial title block to front board gilt, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, blue and gold snowflake patterned endpapers, gilt edges. With 28 tipped in colour plates. A fine copy.

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). Hughey 27a. Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, 10 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.