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4. BARKER, C.M. FAIRIES OF THE TREES Blackie, [c.1940]. Early printing. 12mo. Onlaid pictorial boards in printed pic- torial dustwrapper. Twenty-four charming colour plates and pic- torial endpapers. A near fine copy with wear to spine ends, in a very good dustwrapper indeed with a short close tear to the rear fold. [46203] £75
6. CHAUCER, Geoffrey; GOBLE, Warwick THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER Now First Put into Modern English by Percy Mackaye and John Tatlock The Macmillan Company, 1912. First edition. 4to. Navy boards decorated with gilt vignette and borders to the upper cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Thirty-two colour plates by Warwick Goble under captioned tissue guards. A very good copy, with some light gen- eral wear, internally very bright and clean. [46020] £300
5. BRONTË, Charlotte; DULAC, Edmund SHIRLEY Dent, 1905. First edition illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Two volumes, 12mo. Original decorative white cloth with titles stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt and others untrimmed. Twelve colour plates by Ed- mund Dulac. A very good set, bright externally with some foxing to contents. Previous owner’s name to each volume. [46400] £125 Dulac’s water colours for the series of books by the Bronte sisters were his first real commission to illustrate books and set him on his path as one of the great book illustrators of the Golden Age of Illustration.
Includes The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Cre- seyde, The Book of the Duchess, The Legend of Good Women, The House of Fame and his minor poems. Wonderfully atmospher- ic illustrations, from ethereal glades peopled with fairy inhabitants to maritime adventure, the diversity of the pilgrim’s tales giving the artist an opportunity to employ different styles, all ac- companied by his excep- tional use of colour.
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