DULAC, Edmund.

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Original artwork for The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales: "Whereupon She Instantly Desired Her Partner to Lead Her to the King and Queen". Published in Arthur Quiller-Couch's edition of The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales, in 1910, to accompany "Cinderella". This is one of 30 colour plates in the book and is published opposite page 64. The author Gordon Ray regarded the published volume as Dulac's best work. A reprint in 1978 by Weathervane Books used this image as the jacket illustration.Dulac lavished "historical and artistic accuracy" on the volume and "the binding, lettering style, end papers, pictures" were all integrated "into a unified whole" (Hughey). A review in the Illustrated London News noted that "in binding, type, and illustrations, it is all that could be desired". The deluxe edition sold out on publication and the publishers advertised the trade edition as "the most beautiful book ever published at a popular price". The collection comprises four tales: "The Sleeping Beauty", "Blue Beard", "Cinderella", and "Beauty and the Beast"."Mr Dulac's illustrations are, of course, the reason of this beautiful book's being. Mr Dulac, like Mr Rackham, has a genius for taking the classics of childhood and giving them a new interest for old readers. Children will probably object that he does not really illustrate the stories, but merely uses them as a sort of screen upon which to throw his magic arrangements of bright and moony colours" (The English Review).A rev

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