EDMUND DULAC: A FAIRY GARLAND, FAIRY TALES from OLD FRENCH/12 PLATES/ RARE 1929

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EDMUND DULAC: A FAIRY GARLAND, FAIRY TALES from OLD FRENCH/12 PLATES/ RARE 1929A FAIRY GARLAND: BEING FAIRY TALES FROM THE OLD FRENCH. ILLUSTRATED BY EDMUND DULAC. New York: Charles Scribner's & Sons, 1929. First Edition. Very Scarce.A solid and attractive rare First US Edition book, with 12 lovely full-page color illustrated plates. According to Colin White: "For The Fairy Garland, he [Dulac] drew twelve plates in which he showed the confidence of his experience from his years with Hodder and Stoughton, together with the delicate softness of proved maturity. In the careless poise of the king in Puss in Boots and the varying faces of the Arabian Nights characters in May Blossom, he combined the representationalism of his early work with the patterning of the late. He simplified his modelling and restricted his shading, thereby retaining a lightness and sense of space that was helped by the egg-shell appearance of the colours, controlled tonally by the lavish addition of Chinese white." Published more than 85 years ago, this First w long out of print and hard to find.From the Text: "THE FAIRY SONG. COME, follow, follow me, // Ye fairy elves that be, // Lightly tripping o'er the green, // Come, follow Mab your Queen. // Hand in hand we'll dance around, // For all this place is fairy ground. // When mortal are at rest // And snoring in their nest, // Unheard and unespied // Through key-holes we do glide, // Over tables, stools, and shelves, // We trip it with out fairy elves. // And if the house be foul // With platter, dish, or bowl, // Upstairs we nimbly creep, // And find the sluts asleep; // Then we pinch their arms and thighs; // Then we pinch their arms and thighs; // None us hears, and none us spies // But if the house be swept, // And from uncleanness kept, // We praise the household maid, // And surely she is paid: // Every night before we go, // We drop a tester in her shoe. //Then o'er a mushroom's head // Our tablecloth is spread, // The diet that we eat; // Pearly drops of dew we drink // In acorn cups filled to the brink. // The Brains of nightingales, // With unctuous fat of snails, // between two cockles stewed, // Is meat that's easily chewed; // And brains of worms, and marrow of mice, // Do make a feast that's wondrous nice, // The grasshopper, gnat, and fly // Serve for our ministrelsy ; // Grace said, we dance awhile, // And so the time beguile, // But if the moon doth hide her head // The glow-worm lights us home to bed. // O'er tops of dewy grass // So nimbly we do pass, // The young and tender stalk Ne'er bends where we do walk; Yet in the morning way be seen // Where we the night before have been."Contents include: The Fairy Song; Tales by Charles Perrault ; Riquet with the Tuft; Puss in Boots; Tales by Mme. d'Aulnoy ; Bablet ; Green Dragon; Fortunata ; The Blue Bird; PRincess Rosetta; Tale by Count Anthony Hamilton; MAyblossom ;According to Wikipedia : "Edmund Dulac (born Edmond Dulac ; October 22, 1882 - May 25, 1953) was a French-born, British naturalised magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. Born in Toulouse he studied law but later turned to the study of art the École des Beaux -Arts. He moved to London early in the 20th century and in 1905 received his first commission to illustrate the novels of the Brontë Sisters. During World War I, Dulac produced relief books and when after the war the deluxe children's book market shrank he turned to magazine illustrations among other ventures. He designed banknotes during World War II and postage stamps, most notably those that heralded the beginning of Queen Elizabeth II's reign. Born in Toulouse, France, he began his career by studying law at the University of Toulouse. He also studied art, switching to it full-time after he became bored with law, and having won prizes at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He spent a very brief period at the Académie Julian in Paris in 1904 before moving to London.[1] Settling in London's Holland Park, the 22-year old Frenchman was commissioned by the publisher J.M. ... read more

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