Lot 72
  • 72

DULAC, A COLLECTION OF ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS PUBLISHED BY HODDER & STOUGHTON, 1909-1916, (4 VOLUMES)

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • Dulac, Edmund
  • A Collection of four illustrated editions, comprising:
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Hodder & Stoughton, [1909]. 4to, 20 tipped-in colour plates, original cream cloth gilt, originally decorative printed card box, box with some slight soiling and wear; The Bells and Other Poems, by Edgar Allan Poe. Hodder & Stoughton, [1912]. 4to, number 142 of 750 copies signed by the artist, 28 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue guards, original vellum gilt, lacking ties, board slipcase, minor offsetting, slipcase worn and torn; Sinbad the Sailor & Other Stories from the Arabian Nights. Hooder & Stoughton, [1914]. 4to, 23 tipped-in colour plates, publisher's cloth gilt, text and plates in ornate gold border, bumped; Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book. Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations. Hodder & Stoughton, [1916]. 4to, number 314 of 350 signed by the artist, 16 tipped-in colour plates, publisher's cream pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and blue, some browning and foxing, boards soiled; (4)

Condition

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