The Professor
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1905. Very Good + / Very Good. Item #25911
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1905. First Dulac-illustrated edition. Octavo. 292 pp. Six color plates by Dulac, complete. Illustrated dust jacket. In publisher's boards decorated in dark green and gilt.; top edge gilt.
Dust jacket shows some slight chipping along edges and spine with faint patchy dampstaining, largely confined to verso. Boards show a couple bumps at spine ends and binding is sound. Off-setting to endpapers but pages otherwise unmarked.
An attractive copy of the first Dulac edition, representing his first real commission to illustrate book. Originally published as a ten-volume uniform set. Rare in jacket.
[Hughey 8a].
Price: $400.00