Edmund Dulac's The Professor

Edmund Dulac (1882-1953) is one of the most well-known French illustrators of the first half of the last century.

Dulac's first book assignment (in 1905) was for the publisher J.M. Dent's collected works of the Bronte sisters. It's a testament to Dulac's skills that he, a 22 year old, unpublished foreigner, was given a commission for 60 color illustrations (sample). It's also a reflection of the degree to which this Frenchman had been Anglicized that he was soon contributing to the Pall Mall Magazine along with Rackham and Robinson. (Source)

A complete set of the J.M. Dent's editions (1905-1913) can be found here. The price, £2,750.00.

Markplaats.nl gives you the chance to bid for a 1922 re-print of the Dent edition of The Professor, with six illustrations by Edmund Dulac. The same edition is also available on ebay (picture source). You can see a couple of samples of Dulac's illustrations here.

Incidentally, Mary Ward Books offers an edition of Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:

# Publisher: Collins
# Year Published: undated : c. early 1900's
# Our Price: £12.10 GBP ($23.84 USD)
# Description: Collins' Clear Type Press: undated but circa early 1900's : decorative blue and gilt cloth hardcover: gilt lettering: approx 4.5" x 7" tall: 512 pages: decorative title page; frontispiece and 3 coloured pictures by A Pearse. Condition: Cover slightly marked with some damage to edges : ownership inscription: occasional slight foxing: overall clean and good .

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