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Seller: lastexitbooks ✉️ (19,009) 100%, Location: Charlottesville, Virginia, US, Ships to: US & many other countries, Item: 303225629180 Edmund Dulac First Edition 1907 Stories From The Arabian Nights 50 Color Plates. Hardcover. 4to. Hodder and Stoughton, London. No Date. (1907). xvi + 133, illustrated with frontispiece and 49 tipped-in coloured plates with captioned tissue-guards. Bound in decorated red cloth boards with gilt and green titles present to the front board and the spine. Boards have some light shelfwear present. Light offsetting present to the title page. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This fantastic volume contains English-language retellings of stories from “One Thousand and One Nights”, a collection of South Asian and Middle Eastern folk tales compiled during the Islamic Golden Age.
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Stories from the Arabian Nights

Edited by

Laurence Housman
 Illustrated by Edmund Dulac

Hardcover. 4to. Hodder and Stoughton, London. No Date. (1907).  xvi + 133, illustrated with frontispiece and 49 tipped-in coloured plates with captioned tissue-guards.

Bound in decorated red cloth boards with gilt and green titles present to the front board and the spine. Boards have some light shelfwear present. Light offsetting present to the title page. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.

This fantastic volume contains English-language retellings of stories from “One Thousand and One Nights”, a collection of South Asian and Middle Eastern folk tales compiled during the Islamic Golden Age.

FROM WIKIPEDIA:

Edmund Dulac (born Edmond Dulac, October 22, 1882 – May 25, 1953) was a French magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. Born in Toulouse he studied law but later turned to the study of art the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He moved to London early in the 19th century where he received a commission to illustrate Jane Eyre. Later through his association with a gallery and publishing company he sold his painting that became illustrations. During World War I, Dulac produced relief books and when after the war the deluxe children's book market shrank he turned to magazine illustrations among other ventures. He designed bank notes during World War II and postage stamps, most notably those that heralded the beginning of Queen Elizabeth II's reign.   Born in Toulouse, France, he began his career by studying law at the University of Toulouse. He also studied art, switching to it full time after he became bored with law, and having won prizes at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He spent a very brief period at the Académie Julian in Paris in 1904 before moving to London.   In London, the 22-year old Frenchman was commissioned by the publisher J.M. Dent to illustrate Jane Eyre.He then began an association with the Leicester Gallery and Hodder & Stoughton; the gallery commissioned paintings from Dulac which they sold; the rights to the paintings were purchased by Hodder & Stoughton, who used them as illustrations in illustrated books, publishing one book a year. Books produced under this arrangement by Dulac include Stories from The Arabian Nights (1907) with 50 colour images; an edition of William Shakespeare's The Tempest (1908) with 40 colour illustrations; The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1909) with 20 colour images; The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales (1910); Stories from Hans Christian Andersen (1911); The Bells and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe (1912) with 28 colour images and many monotone illustrations; and Princess Badoura (1913).   Dulac became a naturalized British Citizen on 17 February 1912.   During World War I he contributed to relief books, including King Albert's Book (1914), Princess Mary's Gift Book, and, unusually, his own Edmund Dulac's Picture-Book for the French Red Cross (1915) including 20 colour images. Hodder and Stoughton also published The Dreamer of Dreams (1915) including 6 colour images - a work composed by the then Queen of Romania.   After the war, the deluxe edition illustrated book became a rarity and Dulac's career in this field was over. His last such books were Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book (1916), the Tanglewood Tales (1918) (including 14 colour images) and the The Kingdom of the Pearl (1920). His career continued in other areas however, including newspaper caricatures (especially at The Outlook), portraiture, theatre costume and set design, bookplates, chocolate boxes, medals, and various graphics (especially for The Mercury Theatre, Notting Hill Gate).   He also produced illustrations for The American Weekly, a Sunday supplement belonging to the Hearst newspaper chain in America and Britain's Country Life. Country Life Limited (London) published Gods and Mortals in Love (1935) (including 9 colour images) based on a number of the contributions made by Dulac to Country Life previously. The Daughter of the Stars (1939) was a further publication to benefit from Dulac's artwork - due to constraints related to the outbreak of World War II, that title included just 2 colour images. He continued to produce books for the rest of his life, more so than any of his contemporaries, although these were less frequent and less lavish than during the Golden Age.   Halfway through his final book commission (Milton's Comus), Dulac died of a heart attack on 25 May 1953.   He designed postage stamps for Great Britain, including the postage stamp issued to commemorate the Coronation of King George VI that was issued on 13 May 1937, The head of the King used on all the stamps of that reign was his design and he also designed the 2s 6d and 5s values for the 'arms series' high value definitives and contributed designs for the sets of stamps issued to commemorate the 1948 Summer Olympics and the Festival of Britain.   Dulac was one of the designers of the Wilding series stamps, which were the first definitive stamps of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. He was responsible for the frame around the image of the Queen on the 1s, 1s 3d and 1s 6d values although his image of the Queen was rejected in favour of a photographic portrait by Dorothy Wilding to which he carried out some modifications by hand.[5] He also designed the 1s 3d value stamp of the set issued to commemorate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II but he died just before it was issued.   Dulac designed stamps (Marianne de Londres series) and banknotes for Free France during World War II. In early 40s Edmund Dulac prepared also the project of Polish 20 zlotych note for the Bank of Poland (Bank Polski). This banknote (printed in England in 1942 but dated 1939) was ordered by Polish Government in Exile and was never issued. 

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folio 2º or fo 2 4 12 × 19 30.5 × 48  
quarto 4º or 4to 4 8 9½ × 12 24 × 30.5  
octavo 8º or 8vo 8 16 6 × 9 15 × 23  
duodecimo  or twelvemo 12º or 12mo 12 24 5 × 7⅜ 12.5 × 19  
sextodecimo or sixteenmo 16º or 16mo 16 32 4 × 6¾ 10 × 17  
octodecimo or eighteenmo 18º or 18mo 18 36 4 × 6½ 10 × 16.5  
trigesimo-secundo or thirty-twomo 32º or 32mo 32 64 3½ × 5½ 9 × 14  
quadragesimo-octavo or forty-eightmo 48º or 48mo 48 96 2½ × 4 6.5 × 10  
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  • Condition: Hardcover. 4to. Hodder and Stoughton, London. No Date. (1907). xvi + 133, illustrated with 50 tipped-in coloured plates with captioned tissue-guards. First Trade Edition/First Printing. Bound in decorated red cloth boards with gilt and green titles present to the front board and the spine. Boards have some light shelfwear present. Light offsetting present to the title page. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This fantastic volume contains English-language retellings of stories from “One Thousand and One Nights”, a collection of South Asian and Middle Eastern folk tales compiled during the Islamic Golden Age. Edmund Dulac (born Edmond Dulac, October 22, 1882 – May 25, 1953) was a French magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. Born in Toulouse he studied law but later turned to the study of art the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He moved to London early in the 19th century where he received a commission to illustrate Jane Eyre
  • Author: Laurence Housman
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Character Family: Stories from the Arabian Nights
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
  • Illustrator: Edmund Dulac
  • Language: English
  • Original/Facsimile: Original
  • Place of Publication: London
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
  • Region: Europe
  • Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated, Tipped-in Plates, Stories from the Arabian Nights, Fairy Tales & Fantasy, Edmund Dulac
  • Subject: Illustrated
  • Topic: Fairy Tales & Fantasy
  • Year Printed: 1907
  • Origin: English

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