Printed in britain by t. Constable, printers to his majesty, edinburgh. Hardback, green cloth boards with gilt and brown decorations to front and spine, plain endpapers, 16 tipped-in colour plates with tissue guards, paper mounts with rules and captions printed in grey-green, decorative title page also in grey-green, 174 pagse plus prelims. Approximate size 11.2 x 8.7 x 1.9 inches (22 x 28.4 x 4.7 cm). The magnificent plates, which reflect the artist’s interest in world folklore and its associated imagery, are among his finest, showing particularly strong influences from russian and oriental art. The first trade edition, published in 1916 (well into the first world war), contained fifteen plates, no tissue guards, and a cover design without any gilt embellishments. In 1919, perhaps to mark the end of the war, the publishers issued this enlarged, ‘deluxe’ edition of the book, adding a sixteenth plate plus a new story (’the brid feng’), tissue guards to protect all the prints, plus a lavish use of gilt to the cover altogether a much more handsome and desirable version of the book. Snegorotchka (russian), the buried moon (english), white caroline and black caroline (flemish), the seven conquerors of the queen of the mississippi (belgian), the serpent prince (italian), the hind of the wood (french), ivan and the chestnut horse (russian), the queen of the many-coloured bedchamber (irish), the blue bird (french), bashtchelik or real steel (serbian), the friar and the boy (english), the green serpent (french), urashima taro (japanese), the fire bird (russian), and the story of the bird feng (chinese). Boards and spine as shown, including small indentation in cloth to lower backstrip, with associated small closed tear (see scans). Please see scans for details. Please scroll down to foot of listing, below scans. That my items are located ni the. That proposed industrial action by british postal workers. Airsure at £4.50 is also availabel for some countries, with the benefit of full.Edmund dulac fairy tales art nouveau uk 1919 huge books ubt usually optional i do sometimes make exceptions, particularly for. Countries such as italy or poland, where the postal service is known unreliable. Please note that these prices.