Lot 2078 , Dulac, Edmund (illustrator) – 4 works – Hans Christian Andersen, La Reine des Neiges et Quelques Autres Contes, limited edition, this being number 390 of 500 copies signed by Dulac, 4to, 28 tipped-in colour plates, capti

° Dulac, Edmund (illustrator) – 4 works – Hans Christian Andersen, La Reine des Neiges et Quelques Autres Contes, limited edition, this being number 390 of 500 copies signed by Dulac, 4to, 28 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, contemporary blue half morocco bound by Zaehnsdorf, Paris, H. Piazza, [1911]; Laurence Housman, Stories from The Arabian Nights, second edition, 4to, 50 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, original brown cloth, pictorial gilt, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1907; Edward Fitzgerald (translator), Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, second edition, 4to, 20 tipped-in colour plates, tissue-guards, original cream buckram, decorative gilt, London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1909]; Edmund Dulac’s Fairy Book, reprint, 4to, 16 tipped-in colour plates, original green cloth, London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1920] (4).
£150-250

Condition:
‘La Reine’: Provenance: ‘Vanessa’ ink gift inscribed to- from J. Delabord on initial blank, toning to margins, o/wise internally neat and clean, spine sunned and also to upper cover, rubbing to extremities; ‘Arabian Nights’: toning to margins, some browning, illegible gift inscription to f/free e/paper, inner hinges weakened, upper joint split; ‘Rubaiyat’: light to moderate spotting throughout, no inscriptions, lightly bumped extremities; ‘Fairy Book’: spotting to preliminaries, spine sunned, upper cover corners h/rubbed.

Sold for £260