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. Brock coloured mock leather binding decorated with gilt stamped decoration to both covers and spine. Thirty beautiful tipped in colour plates with captions below (three with light corner turns), under protective tissue guards. A near very good copy, a small split to rear joint and contents a little loose between sections.
The colour illustrations in this book of fairy tales are very beautiful, with rich colours and plenty of Dulac's trade mark starry skies. Stories are The Sleeping Beauty, Blue Beard, Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast.
Stock ID: 46128
