DULAC, Edmund (illus.); HOUSMAN, Laurence.

£500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Stories from the Arabian Nights. Later edition of Dulac's illustrated Stories from Arabian Nights, including "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves". Dulac's work rivalled Rackham's in popularity and was largely confined to deluxe editions. It was this book that first announced Dulac's status as a popular artist, confirming him as "a direct challenger in the illustrated gift book market to the work of Arthur Rackham. Susan Lambert noted that, compared to Rackham, Dulac 'made greater use of the breakthrough in four-colour printing, conceiving and modelling his pictures in colour rather than adding colours to a linear design'" (ODNB).

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