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Edmund Dulac (Edmond Dulac) | First Editions
1882 - 1953
Edmund Dulac (born Edmond Dulac; October 22, 1882 – May 25, 1953) was a French-born, British naturalised magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. During World War I, Dulac produced relief books, as well as illustrating magazines. He is also known for designing banknotes during World War II, and postage stamps - most notably those that heralded the beginning of Queen Elizabeth II's reign.
Dulac was born in Toulouse, and studied law in his home town. However, he later turned to the study of art the École des Beaux-Arts. In the early twentieth century, Dulac moved to London because of the wider publishing opportunities. He received his first commission in 1905 to illustrate the novels of the Brontë Sisters, an event which coincided with the new genre of illustrated gift books, in which color plates, printed on special coated paper that accommodated the new printing process, were “tipped in”, or placed between pages rather than being bound into the spine.
See below our stock of Edmund Dulac First Editions, fine bindings, and signed copies.
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Stories from Hans Andersen. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911. [Illustrated children's classic]. FIRST DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.viii; 250; [2]. Publisher's green cloth blocked in gilt to spine and upper board, illustrated endpapers. With twenty eight tipped in colour plates. Some light spotting to endpapers, preliminaries, and edges, a couple of..... More
Stories from Hans Andersen. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911. [Illustrated children's classic] FIRST DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.viii; 250; [2]. With twenty eight tipped in colour plates. Smartly bound in green half calf over original gilt-stamped green cloth sides, gilt-lettered twin red title labels, spine in six compartments with raised bands..... More
Edmund Dulac's Picture Book.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, for The Daily Telegraph, no date [1915]. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.135; [1] advert. Twenty tipped-in colour plates, one tipped-in photograph of Dulac by E.O. Hoppé. Half dark green oasis, gilt titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, matching cloth sides, top..... More
Sindbad (Sinbad) the Sailor, and Other Stories From the Arabian Nights.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. Circa 1915. Quarto. Pp.224. Illustrated with 23 stunning colour plates, mounted, with captioned tissues, text pages printed in two colours with geometric arabeque borders. Elegantly hand bound in blue half morocco, gilt, with matching cloth sides, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Internally clean, binding unmarked..... More
Sindbad (Sinbad) the Sailor, and Other Stories From the Arabian Nights.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1914]. DULAC ILLUSTRATIONS. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.223; [1]. Bound in publisher's brown cloth, extensively decorated, with a gilt scene of Sinbad sailing a ship against a palace replete with minarets, gilt titles in faux-Arabic script to front board and spine; blue floral endpapers..... More
Lyrics Pathetic And Humorous From A To Z.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1908. First Edition. Quarto. Illustrated grey paper boards, with beveled edges, and cream cloth spine. A lavishly illustrated alphabet book, it includes twenty four plates, as XYZ are represented by a single plate. Edges of boards are rubbed, worn at corners, with some fading, and..... More
Tanglewood Tales. With Illustrations By Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938. FIRST TRADE EDITION illustrated by Dulac. 4to. pp.[xii]; 245; [3], blank. Publisher's decorated beige cloth. 12 full page colour plates, illustrated endpapers. Some edge spotting, cloth a little soiled/marked, spine ends just fraying, gift note to first leaf. Shows well; a very good copy. Hawthorn's..... More
Princess Badoura. A Tale From the Arabian Nights. Retold by Lawrence Housman. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, c.1913. FIRST DULAC EDITION. Quarto. With ten beautiful mounted colour plates tipped-in. Original captioned guard papers. Publisher's bright white cloth with elaborate pale blue and gilt decoration to upper and spine; pale green illustrated endpapers, decorated margins to text block. Some mild toning to backstrip, minor..... More
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1909]. [Metaphysical Poetry] FIRST DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto, unpaginated. 110 quatrains, printed on the recto of each leaf with brown border decoration. Text reprinted from Fitzgerald's second edition. With 20 chromolithographic plates, including a frontispiece, by Edmund Dulac; each with a tissue guard. A...... More
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1909]. [Illustrated] FIRST EDMUND DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 22cm). with 20 tipped in colour plates by Dulac, all with captioned tissue guards; quatrains with brown border decoration. Red half calf with raised bands, matching cloth sides, gilt titles, blue morocco label, top..... More
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [circa 1910]. [Metaphysical Poetry] EDMUND DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION, a later printing. Quarto (28 x 23cm), unpaginated. With 20 tipped in colour plates by Dulac, all with captioned tissue guards; quatrains with green border decoration instead of the usual brown. Navy half morocco with raised..... More
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [circa 1910]. [Metaphysical Poetry] EDMUND DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Text follows the second edition of Fitzgerald's English translation.Quarto (28 x 23cm), unpaginated. With 20 tipped in colour plates by Dulac, all with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's gilt-stamped red cloth, illustrated dust-jacket. Book is fine with..... More
The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales. From the Old French. [Including: Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Blue Beard, and Beauty and the Beast, etc.]
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1910]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST DULAC TRADE EDITION. Quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.[xviii]; 131; [1], blank. With 30 beautiful tipped in colour plates, including a frontispiece, each protected with tissue guard. Recent burgundy half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and matching cloth..... More
Treasure Island.
London: Ernest Benn, 1927. [Illustrated classic] FIRST DULAC EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.xiv; 15-256. Contains 12, full page, colour illustrations by Dulac, including frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth variant (a brown buckram binding was also produced), with titles and trim in black. A 4cm repaired tear to pp.111 / 112..... More
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