The Sleeping Beauty

£780 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

A sumptuous, limited edition, exquisitely illustrated; the additional stories are: Blue Beard; Cinderella; Beauty and the Beast. Limited edition, number 286 of 1000 copies signed by the artist; 4to, (320 x 260 mm); mounted coloured frontispiece and 29 tissue-guarded plates by Edmund Dulac, some minor browning to extreme edges of a couple of leaves, the occasional minor mark to few margins but in the main, very good indeed; later half blue morocco over cloth, maroon lettering piece and gilt double rules to spine, original top edge gilt, others untrimmed, as published, a tad rubbed and slight fading to spine, else near-fine; [xx], 128, [4].

• Binding: Hardcover

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