and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French, retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.
A truly opulent gift book
The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French, retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.
Hodder & Stoughton, 1910.
First Dulac edition. 4to. Red brown mock leather binding decorated with gilt stamped decoration to both covers and spine. Thirty beautiful tipped in colour plates with captions below, under protective tissue guards. A very good copy indeed, occasional spots of foxing and corner creases to two plates.
The colour illustrations in this book of fairy tales are very beautiful, with rich colours and plenty of Dulac's trade mark starry skies. The stories included are: The Sleeping Beauty, Blue Beard, Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast.
Stock ID: 46959
