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Sale 451: Illustrated & Children's Books - Fine Printing - Books in All Fields (#451) 04/07/2011 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 04/07/2011 1:00 PM PDT

Lot #27 Lyrics, Pathetic & Humorous from A to Z

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$4,062.50

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000

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Title:

Lyrics, Pathetic & Humorous from A to Z

Author:

Dulac, Edmund

Place Published:

London

Publisher:

Frederick Warne

Date Published:

1908

Description:

Title leaf, 24 color plates and pictorial endpapers from the book edition, all mounted on green paper, loose as issued in original cloth drop-back box with pictorial title mounted on upper cover. One of approximately 160 copies.

Very rare issue of this charming early work by Dulac, with exuberant drawings and rhymes. This is the "unsigned, unnumbered, limited edition of probably 160 copies in portfolio form" as mentioned by White, "Edmund Dulac", p.200.

Condition:

Light wear and soiling to box; some light wear and a few pinholes to mounting sheet of title leaf, small pinholes to one of the pairs of endpapers; very good.

Item#:

212576

Headline:

Edmund Dulac Lyrics, Pathetic & Humorous
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