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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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The Green Lacquer Pavilion.
London: W. Collins Sons and Co., 1926. [Adventure Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[8] 319 [1]. With nine in-text wood-cuts and a frontispiece portrait of the author by Dulac. Publisher's tan cloth with gilt titles to green label on spine, and a gilt and green device stamped to..... More
Stories from the Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Housman. With drawings by Edmund Dulac. Including Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, The Story of the Magic Horse and The Fisherman and the Genie.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, [1907]. [Children's Illustrated] DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION, the later issue with 50 colour plates though the text. Quarto (28 x 23cm), 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..... More
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1909]. [Illustrated Metaphysical Poetry] FIRST DULAC TRADE EDITION, text reprinted from Fitzgerald's second edition. Quarto (33 x 24cm), unpaginated. With 20 chromolithographic plates, including a frontispiece, by Edmund Dulac, each with a tissue guard, and brown border decoration (later printings have green border). Elegantly..... More
The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales. From the Old French. [Including: Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Blue Beard, and Beauty and the Beast].
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [1910]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST DULAC TRADE EDITION. Quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.xviii; 131 [1]. With 30 beautiful tipped in colour plates, including a frontispiece, each protected with tissue guard. Publisher's brown full pebble-grain leather-effect cloth, with titles and ornate decoration in gilt to spine..... More
The Bookman Christmas Double Number 1915. December 1915. No. 291. Vol. 49.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, December 1915. [Literary Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE SPECIAL. Folio (34 x 23cm), pp.xx; 65-108; 149; xxi-xxix. Not including the special portfolio of colour plates by Bernard Partridge. With numerous in-text black and white illustrations, and occasional colour plates by various artists, including a frontispiece by Rackham. Publisher's..... More
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