The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French. Retold by Sir Arthur Quiller Couch. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1910]. First Edition. Publisher’s brick red morrocco-grain cloth, titles and cherub decorations in compartments to spine gilt, elaborate foliate decoration to upper board in gilt and lower board in blind, cherub corner-pieces, top edge gilt. Light spotting to endpapers, with small previous owner’s book plate to front free endpaper,  otherwise a fine bright copy of this beautifully produced book.

First Dulac trade edition with tipped-in colour frontispiece and twenty-nine plates with printed tissue-guards.

Tales include Blue Beard; Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast. 

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1863-1944) was a Cornish. This edition is one of his best known works.