Edmund Dulac (1882-1953), was a Frenchman who moved to London as a young man, began his prodigious career in an era when illustrated gift books were highly popular. When their popularity waned in the 1930s, he turned his talents to other areas, including costume and set design and graphics for chocolate boxes and medals. Dulac, one of the most prolific illustrators of the Golden Age, has an impressive list of books to his name, including the following: The Arabian Nights (1907), Shakespeare's Comedy of the Tempest (1908), The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1909), Stories from Hans Andersen (1911), The Bells and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe.