Edmund Dulac’s Fairy-Book. London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1928). Later Edition. Blue cloth boards, in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. Gift inscription on card pasted to front free endpaper with some light spotting to contents pages, otherwise a very good copy.

Illustrated with sixteen tipped-in plates in colour.

The tales in this book, both written and illustrated by Dulac, were drawn from the folklores of Russia, England, Flanders, Belgium, Italy, France, Ireland, Serbia and Japan.

Edmund Dulac was a French-born illustrator He moved to London early in the 20th century and in 1905 received his first commission to illustrate the novels of the Brontë Sisters.

The book was first published in 1916 and subtitled: ‘Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations.’