Edmund Dulac (1882 – 1953) was a French magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. For full biographical notes on Dulac, and for earlier works, see part 1 also.
This is part 2 of a 7-part post on the works of Edmund Dulac:
1908 Lyrics Pathetic and Humorous from A to Z
An Alphabet Book of 24
colourful plates (X, Y and Z are combined), each with a limerick. The book
was published in London and New York in 1908 by Frederick Warne & Co. A
year later in 1909 a deluxe limited edition of about 160 copies was issued in
portfolio form much taller than the standard edition — large quarto, title-page
and twenty-four color plates, each mounted on dark green art paper with original
parchment endpapers from the book edition also mounted on folded sheets of dark
green art paper.
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Front Cover |
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End-paper |
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Title Page |
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End-paper |
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End-paper |
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Back Cover |
1908 Shakespeare's Comedy of The Tempest:
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Front Cover |
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Frontispiece |
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Title Page |
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Prospero: "I have done nothing but in care of thee" |
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Prospero: "What seest thou else in the dark backward and abysm of time?" |
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Prospero: "And by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon a most auspicious star |
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Caliban: "Wouldst give me water with berries in't' |
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Antonio: "Here lies your brother, no better than the earth he lies upon" |
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Stephano: "Come, swear to that: kiss the book" |
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Ariel: "You are three men of sin" |
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Iris: "I met her deity cutting the clouds towards Paphos" |
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Iris: "You Nymphs, call'd Naiads, of the windring brooks, leave your crisp channels" |
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Prospero: "We are such stuff as dreams are made on" |
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Ariel: " All prisoners sir, in the lime-grove which weather-fends your cell" |
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Prospero: "You demi-puppets that by moonshine do the green sour ringlets make" |
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Prospero: "Graves at my command have waked their sleepers" |
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Boatswain: "And were brought moping hither" |
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Prospero: "Calm seas, auspicious gales, and sail so expeditious" |
1909 The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám:
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Front Cover |
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Title Page |
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( Frontispiece ) Thinking of Lady Yang at Midnight |
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…Awake! For Morning in the Bowl of Night has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight |
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Peace to Mahmud on his Golden Throne! |
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A Loaf of Bread |
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Blowing Rose |
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Lone Dove |
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…and hidden by the sleeve of Night and Morn |
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The Potter |
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Hour of Grace |
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Angel of the Drink of Darkness |
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Human or Divine |
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A New Marriage |
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Came shining through the Dusk an Angel Shape |
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All are but Stories |
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The Face of Wretched Man |
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That Spring Should Vanish with the Rose |
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Where I Made One |
Thank you so much. I love his work and 90% of these were new to me!
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