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260 pages / 20x28cm / Korean

Edmund Dulac , the illustrator who received the greatest love and fame of his time with his captivating blue watercolors and oriental Art Nouveau style,
267 vintage illustrations

Edmund Dulac, who led the golden age of book illustration and is recognized as one of the world’s top three illustrators along with Arthur Rackham and Kay Nielsen. His captivating illustrations, which brought him enormous success and the greatest fame in the market for high-priced gift illustrated books during the golden age of children’s literature, are still greatly loved by readers to this day, as they are frequently used for “The Little Mermaid,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “The Snow Queen,” and even for “A Thousand and One Nights,” and are a great inspiration to later illustrators. Meet the captivating illustrations of Edmund Dulac

, the illustrator most loved by readers during the golden age of children’s literature
, in one book!

The golden age of children’s literature in the late 19th century and early 20th century, when a new readership was formed due to population growth and declining illiteracy, the advent of printing presses capable of mass production, and the decline in the price of paper and printing costs, led to a flood of books that were intended to entertain children rather than teach them lessons, was possible not only because of the best writers like Lewis Carroll, but also because of the best illustrators. Countless illustrators, including Walter Crane, Jesse Wilcox Smith, Mabel Lucy Atwell, Charles Robinson, William Heath Robinson, and Kate Greenaway, brought the worlds of their stories to life, and children lived enriched lives through them. From princes and princesses like , , and to , , and , publishers competed to find newer and more attractive illustrations to make countless stories we know more new and more attractive.

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