1915 EDMUND DULACS PICTURE BOOK French Red Cross COLOUR TIPPED IN PLATES FANTASY
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Edmund Dulac's Picture Book
For The Red Cross
1915
Nineteen color plates (including frontispiece), all mounted on cream art paper framed with light green bands and with green letterpress.
Original yellow cloth binding (annual size) with blue titles to front board and spine, and plant il...lustration to the front.
. "A Frenchman by birth, Dulac was the logical illustrator to compile a gift book which could be used to raise money for the French Red Cross. To meet the worthy obligation with dispatch, Dulac seems to have hastily assembled a group of pictures he had filed away at his studio. Fifteen of the pictures he used had previously been printed. Three, 'Asenath', 'The Bird Feng' and 'Cerberus', were new paintings first reproduced in this book, though the last-mentioned was probably intended to be used in Tanglewood Tales and diverted to the Red Cross volume. When the collection was reprinted after the war, as the Picture Book, the picture 'The Bird Feng' was dropped and used as a 16th picture in the formerly 15-picture Fairy Book, illustrating 'A Chinese Fairy Tale'. Dulac designed the Red Cross book's binding and wrote an appeal for the organization which was printed under his photograph. The Red Cross book was widely reviewed in contemporary periodicals.
Author: Edmund Dulac
Publisher: For the Daily Telegraph by Hodder and Stoughton
Edition: 1915 First Edition
Attributes: Scarce first edition. Beautiful Tipped in plates by Dulac.
Condition: Original off yellow cloth binding, small split to the cloth to the head of the spine (back board) boards lightly marked with finger marks/stains. binding remains firm, pages bound securely. browning to the endpapers. All 15 tipped in plates present and the fronts, it is however lacking the Dulac Portrait towards the end of the book. pages clean with occasional marks.
Information: 28cm x 21.8cm 135pp
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