Stories from The Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Housman. With illustrations by Edmund Dulac.

Stories from The Arabian Nights With a signed letter from Edmund Dulac

Stories from The Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Housman. With illustrations by Edmund Dulac.

DULAC, Edmund.

Item Number: 74047

London: Hodder & Stoughton, .

Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with plates by Dulac. Laid in is an autographed signed letter by Dulac, which reads, “30th March ’50 Dear Mr. Macy, One thing I forgot in my letter to you this morning: Could you let me see reviews of the book that may appear in American papers? I have a so-called International Agency that is supposed to look out for such things, but since the War they have become very slack. Yours again, Edmund Dulac.” In very good condition.

Edmund Dulac was a French-born, British naturalized magazine illustrator and book illustrator. Born in Toulouse he studied law but later turned to the study of art 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 the deluxe children's book market shrank after the war, 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.

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