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Hardcover in jacket.

Reprint of the classic 1915 edition - done during the golden age of illustration.

Assume 1st edition, though undated. Small folio in elaborately decorated front board and spine, decorated endpapers with a colour plate pasted to frontis with neat inked inscription verso. 15 tipped-in colour plates with guards. Generally a vg book throughout.

The first edition of Edmund Dulac's charming and colourfully illustrated anthology of fairy tales. The first edition of this work.An anthology of charming fairy tales written and illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Published in the midst of World War One, this volume contains 'fairy tales of the allied nations'. These include 'Snegurochka', 'The Buried Moon', 'The Seven Conquerors of the Queen of the Mississippi', 'Urashima Taro', 'The Green Serpent', and more.Illustrated with a tipped-in colour frontispiece, and fourteen tipped-in colour plates.Collated, complete.Dulac is a well regarded illustrator of magazines and books, known in particular for his editions of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, and 'The Rubaiyat'. His style is mostly Art Nouveau, and his illustrations of fairy tales have remained very popular.Undated, dated from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities, resulting in a small amount of fraying to the cloth. Light marks to the boards, mostly to the rear board, with a faint damp stain to the rear joint and head of the board. Scattered spots to the endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with some scattered spots. Very Good

[nd], 1916. Illustrated by Dulac with frontispiece and 14 additional illustration plates, tipped in; all plates present. Cream cloth with black titling, decoration in black and baby blue. Cloth rubbed to edges with fraying to spine ends, light age-soil, spine a little dulled. Spine square. Binding cracked to mull at pages 88 and 105, but intact, and else sound. Small chip from top fore-edge corner of FFEP. Pages foxed; illustration plates bright. Text else free of markings.

. Hodder & Stoughton 1st limited edition, numbered 343/350, signed by Dulac on end paper, with colour plates, light fading to decoartive boards, light age toning to end papers & pages, rought cut pages, no markings, binding tight, very slight bow to cover, Professional booksellers since 1981�x

1st US trade edition, large 4to (8 1/2" x 11 1/2"), full black cloth with full size black paper stamped in gilt. Hughey 47e. 1927 gift inscription to front free endpaper. 16 mounted color plates and title page (same design as cover) by Dulac. Chapter heads by another hand (FRB). The jacket art repeats the cover design but now with brown ink on tan paper and quite appealing. Titles in black. Fine in near fine, unclipped jacket with minor wear and a couple small tears to the rear jacket panel.

1st 1916. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. De-luxe edition limited to only 350 signed and numbered copies. 15 glorious tipped-in colour plates mounted on vellum, each mount edged with gold. White cloth elaborately decorated with gilt to front cover and spine. Vellum endpapers. Deckled edges. 170 pages. 11.5 x 9". SIGNED by Dulac to verso of a free front endpaper. This is Copy No. 52. Spine and edges are browned. Bump to bottom of spine. Some grubby marks to cloth. Surface paper damage to front pastedown, where it appears that something has been removed (possibly a bookplate). Front endpaper has inscriptions in ink; one crossed out, with tape glue marks, where again it appears that something has been removed. Rear pastedown also has some surface paper damage. Edge tear to margin on one contents page. Some darkening and grubby margin marks to pages. All plates are present and beautifully bright. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!