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gutter of pp. 8–9 with loss of two words to p. 8. A very good copy indeed in a fine binding. ¶ Green & Gibson A1ai. £22,500 [157566] 42 DULAC, Edmund (illus.); ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. Stories from Hans Andersen. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911 “sheer grace and poetry of feeling” Signed limited edition, number 248 of 750 copies signed by the artist. One of the most sumptuously illustrated editions of Hans Christian Andersen, this copy includes the advertisement for the exhibition of original watercolours loosely inserted. A review of the illustrated books of 1911 published in Art and Literature (December 1911) found one reviewer stating “In certain qualities of fantasy and delicate strength, and lurid, imaginative daring, Mr Rackham and Mr Pogany are . . . inimitable, but for sheer grace and poetry of feeling I am inclined to give the palm to Mr Edmund Dulac. I doubt if Mr Dulac has ever done better work as a book-illustrator than he has put into the series of colour-plates with which he has illustrated Hans Andersen”.
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41 DOYLE, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1888 sherlock holmes’s first appearance in book form First edition in book form, second impression, with the first and last signatures reset, of Doyle’s first book: this is the first appearance in book form of Sherlock Holmes. A Study in Scarlet first appeared in print in Beeton’s Christmas Annual (1887). It was the first work of detective fiction to incorporate the magnifying glass as an investigative tool, and the first Sherlock Holmes
story to be adapted for the screen: in 1914, G. B. Samuelson produced a silent film of the same name, with Holmes played by James Bragington. Doyle was influential in establishing crime fiction as a widely read literary genre, and Holmes’s name has since become a byword for fictional detective. Octavo (170 × 111 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in red morocco, spine lettered and tooled in gilt, raised bands and gilt compartments on spine, triple rules and tooled cornerpieces in gilt on covers and turn-ins, dark green endpapers, edges gilt. Housed in a custom red leather- entry slipcase. With 6 full-page illustrations by Charles Doyle. Bound without advertisements at front, with 14 pp. advertisements at rear. Faded ownership inscription at head of title page, margins trimmed a little close, paper repair to
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