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"May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books." -Thomas Carlyle
Welcome to my virtual book collection. Since collecting actual books is somewhat cost-prohibitive, I've begun to amass all of the books I would love to have if I had the means. Some are new, lots are old, all are unique or beautiful or unusual or in some other way have captured my fancy. Enjoy browsing!
Special Collections: Fine Bindings ~ Fairies and Fairy Tales ~ Terror and Madness ~ Poetry ~ Food, Drink and Apothecary ~ Science Fiction ~ Illuminations, Lettering and Hand-Coloring ~ Magic ~ Supernatural and Occult ~ Alchemy ~ Science and Technical ~ Maritime ~ Costumes ~ Humor ~ Children's books ~ Legend of King Arthur ~ Americana ~ 18th Century ~ 19th Century Authors and illustrators: Edgar Allan Poe ~ Jules Verne ~ Edmund Dulac ~ Kay Nielsen ~ Arthur Rackham ~ Edward Gorey ~ Charles Dickens ~ H.P. Lovecraft ~ William Hope Hodgson ~ Mark Twain ~ Lewis Carroll ~ Salvador Dali ~ George Cruikshank ~ Emily Dickinson ~ Geoffrey Chaucer ~ H.G. Wells
The Bells and Other Poems
Edgar Allan Poe. New York and London, Hodder and Stoughton, [c.1912]
Unpaginated. Twenty-eight color plates by Edmund Dulac, other illustrations in text. (4to) 28x22 cm. (11x8¾”), original beige cloth, spine & front cover elaborately embossed and gilt lettered. First Dulac Trade Edition. Forty-six poems by Poe handsomely illustrated by Dulac.
Sindbad Le Marin
Edmund Dulac, Paris, 1919.
12 mounted color plates by Edmund Dulac. (4to) 29.5x22.5 cm (11½x8¾”) three-quarter black morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, top edge gilt, original wrappers bound in. Bound by Flammarion Varlant. One of 1500 copies.
The voyages of Sindbad from the Arabian Nights, wonderfully illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales from the Old French
A.T. Quiller-Couch. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1910.
Illustrated by Edmund Dulac with 30 tipped-in color plates, tissue guards. (4to), original red cloth elaborately gilt. First Trade Edition.
Classic French fairy tales beautifully illustrated by the modern master, in addition to Sleeping Beauty the volume also includes Blue Beard, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and more. Laid in is an exhibition notice from Leicester Galleries for the original water-colour drawings for this work.
Stories from the Arabian Nights
Illustrated by Edmund Dulac
Hodder & Stoughton for Boots Pure Drug Co. c. 1930.
Special edition published by Hodder & Stoughton for the Boots Pure Drug Co. Scarce in jacket.
The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales from the Old French
A.T. Quiller-Couch. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1910.
Classic French fairy tales beautifully illustrated by the modern master, in addition to Sleeping Beauty the volume also includes Blue Beard, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and more.
The Kingdom of the Pearl, Illustrated by Edmund Dulac, Published by Brentano’s ~ 1920
Princess Badoura: A Tale from the Arabian Nights
Edmund Dulac. Hodder & Stoughton, 1913.
Illustrated with 10 color plates by Edmund Dulac, tipped-in, with printed guards. 10x7½, original pictorial cloth.
B-A Note: Another beautiful addition to the Edmund Dulac shelf.
Lyrics, Pathetic & Humorous from A to Z
Edmund Dulac. London, Frederick Warne, 1906.
[1] + [24] color plates illustrated by Edmund Dulac, printed on versos only. 10½x8, original cloth-backed color pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. Scarce work by the young Dulac, with amusing rhymes. “E” was an exquisite elf, “I” was an impudent imp, “L” was a lorn little lass, “R” was a rubicund rustic, etc. This edition is not dated, but each plate is dated 1906.
B-A Note: I am becoming quite fond of Edmund Dulac.
Fairy Book: Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations. Dulac, Edmond. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1916].
15 tipped-in color plates. 4to. Original pictorial cloth gilt. Limited edition, no 300 of 350 copies signed by Dulac
Edmund Dulac (born Edmond Dulac, October 22, 1882 – May 25, 1953) was a French book illustrator prominent during the so called “Golden Age of Illustration” (the first quarter or so of the twentieth century). His enchanting illustrations grace such hard-to-find classics as his Fairy Book, Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
![The Bells and Other Poems
Edgar Allan Poe. New York and London, Hodder and Stoughton, [c.1912]
Unpaginated. Twenty-eight color plates by Edmund Dulac, other illustrations in text. (4to) 28x22 cm. (11x8¾”), original beige cloth, spine & front cover elaborately embossed and gilt lettered. First Dulac Trade Edition. Forty-six poems by Poe handsomely illustrated by Dulac.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdt60eotf01qabm59o1_500.jpg)






![Lyrics, Pathetic & Humorous from A to Z
Edmund Dulac. London, Frederick Warne, 1906.
[1] + [24] color plates illustrated by Edmund Dulac, printed on versos only. 10½x8, original cloth-backed color pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. Scarce work by the young Dulac, with amusing rhymes. “E” was an exquisite elf, “I” was an impudent imp, “L” was a lorn little lass, “R” was a rubicund rustic, etc. This edition is not dated, but each plate is dated 1906.
B-A Note: I am becoming quite fond of Edmund Dulac.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_larss0iezi1qabm59o1_500.jpg)
![Fairy Book: Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations. Dulac, Edmond. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1916].
15 tipped-in color plates. 4to. Original pictorial cloth gilt. Limited edition, no 300 of 350 copies signed by Dulac
Edmund Dulac (born Edmond Dulac, October 22, 1882 – May 25, 1953) was a French book illustrator prominent during the so called “Golden Age of Illustration” (the first quarter or so of the twentieth century). His enchanting illustrations grace such hard-to-find classics as his Fairy Book, Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l95oj54HFB1qabm59o1_500.jpg)