The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche

The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche Re-Told by Walter Pater from "The Golden Ass" of Lucius Apuleius, Limited Edition #1473/1500, Signed by Artist Edmund Dulac. 4to.(7.25" x 10.375") 64 + (2) pp. 1951. Limited Edition #1473/1500. In slipcase. Full vellum with gilt lettering and floral decoration to upper board, gilt lettering to spine. Title page in red and black, all other pages with red title and pg# in red, text in black, or illustrated. Signed by the artist, Edmund Dulac, and numbered on limitation page at rear of text. Illustrated with 6 colorful paintings by Edmund Dulac. Slipcase with toning to edges, toned spine with gilt lettering (see pic), lightly soiled. A beautiful book with essentially no edgewear, well taken care of and it shows. Limitation page at rear of volume states: For this edition of "The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche" the story has been taken from the pages of Walter Pater's "Marius the Epicurean" and printed in this fashion for the first time. Fifteen hundred copies have been made for the members of The Limited Editions Club by Huxley House in New York under the supervision of Warren Chappell; and the text is composed in Mr. Chappell's Trajanus. The Illustrations have been reproduced by Arthur Jaffe in New York from the water-color paintings of Edmund Dulac; and Mr. Dulac here signs [Edmund Dulac] this copy, which is number 1473.

Edmund Dulac (born Edmond Dulac; 22 October 1882 – 25 May 1953) was a French-British naturalized magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. Born in Toulouse, he studied law but later turned to the study of art at the École des Beaux-Arts. He moved to London early in the 20th century and in 1905 received his first commission to illustrate the novels of the Brontë Sisters. During World War I, Dulac produced relief books. After the war, the deluxe children's book market shrank, and he then turned to magazine illustrations among other ventures. He designed banknotes during World War II and postage stamps, most notably those that heralded the beginning of Queen Elizabeth II's reign.