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7 Tales from King Arthur’s Court

In 1923, “Edmund Dulac, the Distinguished English Artist”, as he was billed on the front covers, was contracted by the Hearst organization to paint watercolors for The American Weekly magazine. The Sunday supplement for the Hearst newspaper chain published from roughly 1895 through 1961 featured many popular...

• Fully illustrated with over 135 illustrations
• Full color watercolors, engravings and line art from the Golden Age
• Includes a bibliography of illustrated editions from 1800-1950
• See Aladdin and the Princess like never before

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Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp had been one of...

• Fully illustrated with over 100 watercolors, engravings and line drawings
• Artwork from the best artists of the Victorian and Golden ages
• Full bibliography listing every edition
• See Sindbad like never before

Sindbad has been one of the most popular of the Tales from the Arabian Nights since it was first translated from French into English by W....

• Fully illustrated with over 50 Golden Age artists
• Each page illustrated by famous artists
• Watercolors by Edmund Dulac, WH Robinson, René Bull, Walter Paget, Helen Stratton, George Sopor, Frances Brundage and Monro S Orr
• Line drawings by Eric Pape, William Harvey, HJ Ford, AD McCormack, JD Batten and AB Houghton
• Full bibliography of all...

These tales from the Arabian Nights are the adventures of Caliph Haroun Al Raschid, the Defender of the Faithful, and his travels among his followers in Bagdad. He would often disguise himself and walk among his people, so as to learn their habits and problems. These Tales are some of his adventures, and are the best well known and, fortunately...

This edition is fully illustrated with over 60 color and line drawings

• Full-color illustrations by Edmund Dulac, René Bull, Maxfield Parrish, VF Sterrett, Helen Stratton, MS Orr, Walter Crane, WH Robinson and others
• Line drawings by the finest Victorian and Edwardian illustrators, including Eric Pape, Walter Strang, JC Clark, T Dalziel, Louis...

“No one knows where the tales were written, except that they came out of the Far East, India, Arabia and Persia. Haroun Al Raschid, who was called The Just, was a real Eastern monarch who lived in Baghdad over eleven hundred years ago, about the same time that Charlemagne was King of France. We can believe that the tales are very old, but the...

In 1923, “Edmund Dulac, the Distinguished English Artist, "as he was billed on the front covers, was contracted by the Hearst organization to paint watercolors for The American Weekly magazine, the Sunday supplement for the newspapers. The contract lasted nearly 30 years. Dulac painted 106 watercolors from 1924-1951 for thirteen different...

What the Canterbury Tales Are

The Canterbury Tales are one of the great classics of all literature. They were written by Geoffrey Chaucer, poet, warrior, diplomat and royal pensioner, about 1387, and are famous for the pictures they give of life in the 14th century. The tales were supposed to have been told by various members of a pilgrimage to...

In 1923 Edmund Dulac received an offer from the Hearst Corporation to paint the front covers for the Sunday supplement of the New York Weekly American. Colin White writes in his biography Edmund Dulac (Studio Vista 1976) “Each series was to consist of eight to twelve consecutive issues on a theme suggested by Dulac, but subject to editorial...

In 1923, “Edmund Dulac, the Distinguished English Artist,”as he was billed on the front covers, was contracted by the Hearst organization to paint watercolors for The American Weekly. The contract lasted nearly 30 years.From the 1920’s onward, Dulac’s income came primarily from his American Weekly work. . Dulac painted 106 watercolors from...

EDMUND DULAC’S FAIRYLAND

In 1924, English artist and Golden Age illustrator Edmund Dulac published his first series for the front covers of The American Weekly magazine, the Sunday supplement of the William Randolph Hearst newspaper chain. These beautiful watercolors have never been republished since their first printing. On this 100th...

This is a guided tour of the illustrated editions of ‘The Arabian Nights’, also called ‘The Thousand and One Nights’, published in England and America between 1800 and 1950. It begins with one of the earliest editions illustrated in 1802 by English artist Robert Smirke, who painted especially for inclusion in books. Following are the earliest...

Much has been written about Edmund Dulac’s mastery of art deco and design since his death in May of 1953. He was born in Toulouse, France in 1882 and was educated as a lawyer, although he rebelled and later studied art at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He is best known as one of the giants of the ‘Golden Age of Illustration’ along with Arthur Rackham...

In 1923, “Edmund Dulac, the Distinguished English Artist,”as he was billed on the front covers, was contracted by the Hearst organization to paint watercolors for The American Weekly. He illustrated thirteen different series with 106 watercolors from 1924’s ‘Bible Scenes and Heroes’ through 1951’s ‘Tales from the Arabian Nights’.

The two series...

In 1923, “Edmund Dulac, the Distinguished English Artist,”as he was billed on the front covers, was contracted by the Hearst organization to paint watercolors for The American Weekly Magazine, the Sunday supplement for the Hearst newspaper chain. they claimed fifty million subscribers and were carried in seventeen newspapers. The contract lasted...

In 1923, “Edmund Dulac, the Distinguished English Artist,”as he was billed on the front covers, was contracted by the Hearst organization to paint watercolors for The American Weekly. The contract lasted nearly 30 years.From the 1920’s onward, Dulac’s income came primarily from his American Weekly illustrations. He painted 106 watercolors for...