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| Edmund Dulac ~ Fairies I Have Met ~ Book Cover Fairies I Have Met by Mrs. (Maud Margaret) Rodolph Stawell Hodder & Stoughton ~ 1910 |
For all the beauty of its cover, the title page is quite plain, so I've not included it, but all 8 illustrations for Fairies I Have Met by Mrs. Rodolph (Maud Margaret) Stawell are represented here, with the edges cropped and the color restored, copied from their original source where you can read the story and view the illustrations in context.
I presented them first in June 2011 at my tumblr blog, The Art of Narrative, where the images appear large and of the same size on the opening page. Click on them here, and the images are at their largest.
Fairies I Have Met was published in 1910 by Hodder and Stoughton, with illustrations lesser known but no less charming and personable than Dulac's work for The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales, also published by Hodder and Stoughton in the same year.
Edmund Dulac (1882-1953) is one of the premiere illustrators of the golden age of children's book illustration, and among my personal favorites. He was born October 22, 1882 in Toulouse, France, and attended Toulouse University, Toulouse Art School, and Académie Julian in Paris. He became a British citizen in 1912.
Click each image for great detail.
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| Edmund Dulac ~ Frontispiece The Bird of Shadows & The Sun Bird Fairies I Have Met by Mrs. (Maud Margaret) Rodolph Stawell Hodder & Stoughton ~ 1910 "Please," she said, "I want to be a nightingale." |
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| Edmund Dulac ~ The Sea-Fairy & The Land-Fairy Fairies I Have Met by Mrs. (Maud Margaret) Rodolph Stawell Hodder & Stoughton ~ 1910 He held out the little shell in the beam of coloured light. |
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| Edmund Dulac ~ Princess Orchid's Party Fairies I Have Met by Mrs. (Maud Margaret) Rodolph Stawell Hodder & Stoughton ~ 1910 She smiled at him very graciously when he was introduced to her. |
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| Edmund Dulac ~ The Cloud That Had No Lining Fairies I Have Met by Mrs. (Maud Margaret) Rodolph Stawell Hodder & Stoughton ~ 1910 And because the silver of the moonshine-fairies is very light he was able to carry a great deal of it. |
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| Edmund Dulac ~ The Fairies Who Changed Places Fairies I Have Met by Mrs. (Maud Margaret) Rodolph Stawell Hodder & Stoughton ~ 1910 Drop-Of-Crystal was too busy to speak. |
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| Edmund Dulac ~ The Making of the Opal Fairies I Have Met by Mrs. (Maud Margaret) Rodolph Stawell Hodder & Stoughton ~ 1910 Of course, the Dear Princess... wore the great opal on the day that she was married. |
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| Edmund Dulac ~ The Big Spider's Diamonds Fairies I Have Met by Mrs. (Maud Margaret) Rodolph Stawell Hodder & Stoughton ~ 1910 The web and the diamonds and the Big Spider himself all fell to the ground. |
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| Edmund Dulac ~ A Little Girl in a Book Fairies I Have Met by Mrs. (Maud Margaret) Rodolph Stawell Hodder & Stoughton ~ 1910 The other people in the book looked at her in surprise. |
If you have any favorites, or special love for Edmund Dulac's work, please leave your comments.
I have admired Dulac since I first became aware of him in the early 1980s and actually have at least one book of his illustrations but can not at the moment recollect if the ones you put here are represented in that book. But it doesn't matter because you have done such a tremendous work in putting them in this blog that I have renewed my love for him. Thank you
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