Edmund Dulac's Picture-Book for the French Red Cross - Edmund Dulac 1915 - Published for The Daily Telegraph by Hodder and Stoughton, London. New York. Toronto - First Edition A sumptuously bound first edition of this magically illustrated compilation of fairy tales, with nineteen full-page tipped-in colour plates, together with a tipped-in black and white portrait of Dulac.

Presenting seventeen fairy tales, poems and songs including –
Sinbad the Sailor, the Three Kings of Orient, The Lady Badoura, The Story of the Bird Feng, The Real Princess, My Lisette, The Nightingale, Cinderella, Aucassin and Nicolette, Blue Beard, and Jusef and Asenath.
  Edmund Dulac (1882-1923) was an eminent artist of the ‘Golden Age of Illustration’ that occurred during the early twentieth century. Born in France, Dulac studied law at the University of Toulouse, but later dropped his law studies in order to pursue his career as an artist. After briefly studying art in Paris at the Académie Julian, Dulac moved to London in 1904 where he was commissioned by J.M. Dent to illustrate the collected works of the Bronte sisters.

Some of Dulac’s most famously illustrated books include
The Arabian Nights, The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayámm, Sindbad and the Sailor, The Sleeping Beauty, The Bells and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe, and Stories from Hans Christian Andersen. As Dulac continued illustrating, the influence of Orientalism became more pronounced in his work, infusing his palette with brighter coloration; this style won him praise for its exquisite use of detail and hue. After the First World War Dulac found work as a set designer, as well as designing postage stamps, bookplates, and theatre graphics.

References: Simon Houfe,
British Illustrators and Caricaturists, 290. Ann Hughey, Edmund Dulac - His Book Illustrations: A Bibliography, 47a. www.arthistory.net.

Quarto (binding size 28x22.2cm), pp. [9] [1 (appeal)] 135 [1 (appeal)] [2].
  Finely bound in full dark brown morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, original cloth covers bound in at rear of volume.   Condition: Fine in fine binding   Ref: 110999   Price: HK$ 8,000