Bio:Edmund Dulac
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Edmund Dulac (born Edmond Dulac; October 22, 1882 – May 25, 1953) was a French-born, British naturalised magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. [...]
Dulac became a naturalised British citizen on 17 February 1912.
- --quoting Wikipedia as of 2016-12-08 (leaves legal name uncertain)
ED's first illustrations appeared in France in 1897; work of fantasy interest began to appear after his move to England, the first being illustrations to Fairies I Have Met (1907; exp vt My Days with the Fairies 1913 ["exp vt" = expanded, variant title; 563181]) by Mrs Rodolph Stawell. In that year he began to produce an annual Christmas Book for Hodder & Stoughton, the firm which had published Rackham's first Christmas gift-book. The sequence, for which ED did much of his best fantasy work, comprises Stories from the Arabian Nights (coll 1907) ...
- --quoting Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), eds. Clute and Grant, "Dulac, Edmund"
[In 1907] he began an association with the Leicester Galleries and Hodder & Stoughton; the gallery commissioned illustrations from Dulac which they sold in an annual exhibition, while publishing rights to the paintings were taken up by Hodder & Stoughton for reproduction in illustrated gift books, publishing one book a year.
- --quoting Wikipedia as of 2016-12-08