Author: Charles Perrault. Mme d'Aulnoy. Count Anthony Hamilton. EDMUND DULAC, illustrator.
Title: A FAIRY GARLAND Being FAIRY TALES from the Old French Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Publisher: London, Toronto, Melbourne, and Sydney, Cassell & Company, Limited / New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. First Edition. Limited edition of 1000 signed copies. This one is #268/1000 signed by Edmund Dulac.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 11" x 9".
Pages: 251 pages.
Binding: Attractive and fine full blue morocco leather binding (hinges fine) under a protective removable mylar cover. All edges are gilt.
Content: Near fine content (bright, tight and clean, very rare light foxing - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with twelve brightly colored wonderful full-page plates by Dulac, protected by tissue guards.

Estimate: (USD 1000 - USD 1200)

The book: Beautiful First Edition of those Fairy Tales illustrated by EDMUND DULAC. One of 1,000 copies signed and numbered by the artist. In an exquisite Morocco binding!

The contents: The Fairy Song. Riquet with the Tuft, Puss in Boots, Bablet, Green Dragon, Fortunata, The Blue Bird, Princess Rosetta, Mayblossom.

The illustrator: Edmund Dulac (born Edmond Dulac; October 22, 1882 – May 25, 1953) was a French-born, British naturalized magazine illustrator, book illustrator, and stamp designer. Born in Toulouse he studied law but later turned to the study of art at the École des Beaux-Arts. He moved to London early in the 20th century and in 1905 received his first commission to illustrate the novels of the Brontë Sisters. 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 banknotes during World War II and postage stamps, most notably those that heralded the beginning of Queen Elizabeth II's reign.