Lyrics Pathetic & Humorous from A to Z.

DULAC, Edmund

Published by London: Frederick Warne :, First edition,, 1908

About this Item

4to., unpaginated, with 24 fine colour plates, illustrated by Edmund Dulac, each featuring a letter of the alphabet (x,y & z are combined) with an accompanying printed limerick printed on one side only, pictorial endpapers, bound in the original linen-backed pictorial boards. An unusally VG+ bright copy with only slight wear to extreme corner tips, with the gutta-percha style binding still holding remarkably well and with no damage whatsoever to front or rear hinges. Born in 1882 France, Edmund Dulac, a gifted teenage artist, made it through two years of studying law before the boredom of law school and the winning of a prize at the Ecole des Beaux Arts tipped him into an art career and he became a full time art student. His arrival in London in 1904 just as the "colour separation" process of reproducing color plates was invented fortuitously placed him at the birth of the illustrated gift-book. Edmund Dulac became one of the five major "Golden Age" gift book illustrators. A gifted caricaturist, Dulac was at his best in Lyrics Pathetic and Humorous. Seller Inventory # 3283

Bibliographic Details

Title: Lyrics Pathetic & Humorous from A to Z.

Publisher: London: Frederick Warne :, First edition,

Publication Date: 1908

Binding: Hardcover