Edmund Dulac's Picture-Book for the French Red Cross
London: Published for the Daily Telegraph by Hodder and Stoughton, 1915. Very Good / Very Good -. Item #14497
London: Published for the Daily Telegraph by Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d. but 1915]. Second Printing with no tissue guard over frontispiece and bound in pale green cloth per Hughey. Quarto; publisher's pale green cloth in tan dust jacket with color pictorial element mounted to front panel, housed in custom cloth slipcase; [6],134pp.; mounted color frontispiece, nineteen (19) leaves of plates.
Restored dust jacket entirely backed by prior owner in archival tissue, with extensive color touch-ups and fills over evidence of prior shallow tears and chips along edges and corners and splits along either side of spine; currently moderately dust-soiled, spine panel quite toned, corners bumped and cloth extremities a shade faded, else Very Good in a Good or better, albeit overly sophisticated copy of the jacket.
Lovely gift book issued in the early days of World War I to raise funds for the Red Cross of Edmund Dulac's native France. Time being of the essence, all of the illustrations published in the volume appear to have been gathered from available contents of the illustrator's studio, including fifteen previously-printed images. Only "Asenath," "The Bird Feng," and "Cerberus" first appeared in print in this publication. Often reprinted during the War, the collection was issued anew in 1919 under the simplified title Edmund Dulac's Picture Book.
[Hughey 39b].
Price: $125.00