Princess Badoura.: A Tale from the Arabian Nights.

London: Hodder and Stoughton,, [1913]. Nothing more purely beautiful has ever come even from Dulac's fairy brush Signed limited edition, number 346 of 750 copies signed by the artist. A review in The Bookman stated that, "Scherazade's romance of Badoura, the beautiful Princess of China... supplies Edmund Dulac with a subject exactly suited to his gracious, exquisitely delicate art". The Athenaeum found in the tale "a rootlet of later Persian feminism". Hughey notes that Dulac "altered his style" for this book in order "to follow that of Chinese painting. The result is a very new, but mature style, most subtle in both design and colours. None of his work before or after was quite like it". A review in The Outlook stated "nothing more purely beautiful has ever come even from Dulac's fairy brush than the picture of Badoura in the arms of Camaralzaman against a background so exquisite as to make one hold one's breath". Quarto. Original white cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt and decorated with pictorial design blocked in gilt and green, pale green endpapers, top edge green. Colour frontispiece and nine coloured plates tipped in, with captioned tissue guards, all by Dulac. Extremities a little bumped, spine soiled, some slight browning; a very good copy. Hughey 31. The Bookman, December 1913; The Outlook, 15 November 1913.