Comus Masque Preface by Milton John (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dulac, Edmund (illustrator). Quarter black vellum, marbled boards. 6 plates in color by Dulac. Spine a bit rubbed. Sandglass laid in, in worn slip-case.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The Heritage Press Nd 1955? January 1955 Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Book Good. No dust jacket. No slipcase. Endpapers slightly spotted. The Heritage Club Sandglass III/20 laid in. (poetry, allegories, temperance, chastity, songs).

Condition: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. Slipcase rubbed. Glassine dust jacket rubbed, most of spine cover chipped off. The Heritage Club Sandglass III/20 laid in. (poetry, allegories, temperance, chastity, songs).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Thus. Printed for the Heritage Press at the University Press, Cambridge. Illustrated by watercolors by Edmund Dulac. There's a bit of foxing to the ffep, else fine. Slipcase is very good with browning to the edges. Laid in is the Heritage Club's "Sandglass" (in perfect condition), a pamphlet that provides excellent background on Milton, his work, and this edition. Book.

Condition: Very Good. Heritage Press.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Jacket Condition: 'Poor' Condition: 'Fine' Notes: Original Heritage Press edition printed at Cambridge University Press by Brook Crutchley. Illustrated with water-colors by Edmund Dulac. Binding is square, tight, and solid. Black quarter cloth marbled boards. Gilt is solid and bright. Bookplate to front free endpaper, otherwise pages are unmarked, crisp, clean, and not bent. Slip case edges have browning, otherwise it is in near fine condition. Original glassine dust jacket is missing spine, has chips and tears, etc.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Edmund Dulac (illustrator). Limited. Illus. with water-colors by Edmund Dulac. 6 color plates, 72pp. sm. 4to, 1/2 vellum, t.e.g., boxed. Cambridge: Printed for The Limited Editions Club at the University Press, 1954 One of 1500 copies, containing Dulac's last book illustrations.

Hardcover. Limited Edition. Very Good, bound in quarter vellum and marbled paper-covered boards, housed in a Very Good slipcase. A few bumps and rubbing to slipcase. Boards slightly bowed. Small 4to, 10 3/4"h x 7 1/2"w. Laid-in Limited Editions Newsletter. Illustrated with water-colors by Edmund Dulac.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine / lightly scuffed box. #1465 of 1500 copies., top edge gilt, boxed. Monthly letter laid in.

72pp. Small 4to. Original paper backed, marbled boards in own slipcase. Colour frontispiece and plates. A near fine copy. Limited edition. Last work illustrated by Dulac.

Together two items. AN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR PAINTING, SIGNED by Dulac and reprinted as one of the illustrations for the publication of COMUS. With, a copy of the book itself, first edition thus from the L.E.C. in a printing of 1500 numbered copies. The painting is of a woman standing in field of flowers within the curve of a dragon's tale. Behind her is a large tree laden with fruit and with additional floral and arboreal decorations in the background. The book contains the printed version of this work along with 5 other colourplates from original watercolours by Dulac. This was the last book to be illustrated by Dulac. With frame,16.5" 13.5" , the painting is now handsomely matted and presented in silver-leafed wooden frame. The book is in the publisher's original parchment backed marbled boards, the spine lettered in gilt and housed in the original black slipcase lettered in gilt. 58, [16]. The original painting in beautiful condition, very handsomely framed and presented, the book is a fine and bright copy, the slipcase only with very minor wear. A RARE AND BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL PAINTING BY EDMUND DULAC. Dulac is considered one of the most original and prolific book illustrator's of the first two decades of the 20th century. His name is often linked with Arthur Rackham, as they both produced illustrations for lavish gift books for children and adults, which were of the highest quality and commercial success. Dulac, born a Frenchman, settled in England to build his artistic career. He quickly caught the eye of J.M Dent publishers and produced illustrations for an illustrated edition of Jane Eyre in 1905. But it was when he was discovered by Leicester Galleries that his career actually took off. They had been seeking another talented artist of the stature and appeal of Arthur Rackham for children's gift book illustrations. At that time, children's books were purchased by the wealthy as symbols of good taste and there was a huge market to be captured by a new, imaginative artist. Dulac was the perfect choice. Dulac offered a new sensibility to book illustration by his intense use of color, his Eastern atmosphere, his brightly jeweled patterns, and mystical themes. His work met with instant success and approbation. From 1907 with the publication of his magnificent Arabian Nights until 1914 with the issue of Sinbad the Sailor, he published an annual collection of outstanding watercolors for gift books for children. These books included: The Tempest in 1908, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in 1909, Sleeping Beauty in 1910, Stories from Hans Anderson in 1911, Bells and other Poems (Edgar Allan Poe) in 1912, and Princess Badoura in 1913. During the war years, when an understandable shift in publishing took place, he produced Princess Mary's Gift Book, King Albert's Books, Edmund Dulac's Picture Book for the French Red Cross, and in 1916 Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book. All of his books were highly praised and he became one of the most sought after illustrators in the world. Dulac as a young artist had been deeply inspired by William Morris, Walter Crane and Aubrey Beardsley. He had a spiritual temperament which developed throughout his life and was intensified by his exposure to Eastern mysticism. Much of his art was inspired by Persian miniatures in its use of bright, radiant colors, detailed patterns and asymmetrical compositions. He aimed to take his art out of the realm of representation and into a more subjective, mystical "eternal" plane. He produced some of the most enduring works of beauty and transcendence during his artistic career, and continues to be appreciated and collected to this day. Dulac's illustrations conjure the mysterious atmosphere of the oriental text and transport the reader to a lyrical world of grace and beauty. "The Arabian Nights gave Dulac an opportunity to indulge in his nocturnes; the the softness of the gleam of moonlight on stone, or on shadowy figures, and his use of ultramarine, indigo and Prussian blue, mi.

4to. pp. 4 p.l., [58], [16]incl colophon. 6 full-page colour illus. music in text. A fine copy in original quarter vellum over marbled bds., in slightly worn slipcase. Limited to 1500 numbered copies. The last of Dulac's works to be issued in his lifetime. Designed by John Dreyfus, printed on Barcham Green hand-made paper and bound by the Cambridge University Press, set in monotype Bembo, illustrations printed in process offset by Sun Engraving Company, London. LEC Quarto-Millenary 250.