by Leonard Rosenthal.
The Kingdom of the Pearl by Leonard Rosenthal.
Nisbet & Co., 1925.
First edition. Number 260 of 675 copies for sale in Great Britain. Large 4to. Quarter buckram over paper covered boards decorated in sliver and gilt titles to the spine. Top edge gilt and others untrimmed. Patterned endpapers and 10 beautiful colour plates mounted under captioned tissue guards. A very good copy with some light foxing to the prelims and a little wear to the corners.
The plates in this book combine an Oriental style with use of rich colours and large blocks of gold and silver giving a real feeling of opulence. Describing the book Colin White says, "Dulac's pictures evoked not only the art of the East... but also the jewelled illuminations of a mediaeval Book of Hours." He suggests that in this book Dulac produces his, "greatest and perhaps least known illustrations".
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