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Editor's Note
Synopsis
Book Details
Bound in printed and blocked cloth, this superb Folio book features eight original colour illustrations by multiple Hugo and Locus award-winning fantasy artist Julie Dillon. An exclusive introduction by Erin Morgenstern completes this grand and dreamlike fairy tale for adults.
As desires clash and boundaries blur, this timeless tale weaves an enchanting tapestry of longing, sacrifice and the unyielding pull of destiny. Lord Dunsany’s The King of Elfland’s Daughter is a spellbinding journey into the heart of fantasy, where love defies worlds, but magic demands its price.
Production Details
Bound in printed and blocked clothPrinted slipcase
Plain endpapers
Dimensions
10 inches x 6¾ inches Font
Set in Barbou with Mason Serif as display Pages
240 text pagesAuthor
Lord DunsanyIllustrated by
Julie DillonIllustration
Frontispiece and 8 colour illustrations including one double page spreadPublication Date
04/03/2025Printing
First PrintingThe King of Elfland’s Daughter
The King of Elfland’s Daughter
About the Illustrator
Julie Dillon is an illustrator from the Pacific Northwest, whose clients include major book publishers such as Simon & Schuster, Tor, Penguin and HarperCollins. Since graduating in fine arts from Sacramento State University in 2005 her work has won numerous awards, including a Hugo for best professional artist, as well as Locus and British Fantasy awards for best artist. For The Folio Society she has illustrated Lord Dunsany’s The King of Elfland’s Daughter (1912, Folio 2025) and The Song of Achilles (2011, Folio 2024) by Madeline Miller.
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About the Illustrator
Julie Dillon is an illustrator from the Pacific Northwest, whose clients include major book publishers such as Simon & Schuster, Tor, Penguin and HarperCollins. Since graduating in fine arts from Sacramento State University in 2005 her work has won numerous awards, including a Hugo for best professional artist, as well as Locus and British Fantasy awards for best artist. For The Folio Society she has illustrated Lord Dunsany’s The King of Elfland’s Daughter (1912, Folio 2025) and The Song of Achilles (2011, Folio 2024) by Madeline Miller.
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About the Illustrator
Julie Dillon is an illustrator from the Pacific Northwest, whose clients include major book publishers such as Simon & Schuster, Tor, Penguin and HarperCollins. Since graduating in fine arts from Sacramento State University in 2005 her work has won numerous awards, including a Hugo for best professional artist, as well as Locus and British Fantasy awards for best artist. For The Folio Society she has illustrated Lord Dunsany’s The King of Elfland’s Daughter (1912, Folio 2025) and The Song of Achilles (2011, Folio 2024) by Madeline Miller.
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About the Illustrator
Julie Dillon is an illustrator from the Pacific Northwest, whose clients include major book publishers such as Simon & Schuster, Tor, Penguin and HarperCollins. Since graduating in fine arts from Sacramento State University in 2005 her work has won numerous awards, including a Hugo for best professional artist, as well as Locus and British Fantasy awards for best artist. For The Folio Society she has illustrated Lord Dunsany’s The King of Elfland’s Daughter (1912, Folio 2025) and The Song of Achilles (2011, Folio 2024) by Madeline Miller.
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About the Illustrator
Julie Dillon is an illustrator from the Pacific Northwest, whose clients include major book publishers such as Simon & Schuster, Tor, Penguin and HarperCollins. Since graduating in fine arts from Sacramento State University in 2005 her work has won numerous awards, including a Hugo for best professional artist, as well as Locus and British Fantasy awards for best artist. For The Folio Society she has illustrated Lord Dunsany’s The King of Elfland’s Daughter (1912, Folio 2025) and The Song of Achilles (2011, Folio 2024) by Madeline Miller.
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About the Illustrator
Julie Dillon is an illustrator from the Pacific Northwest, whose clients include major book publishers such as Simon & Schuster, Tor, Penguin and HarperCollins. Since graduating in fine arts from Sacramento State University in 2005 her work has won numerous awards, including a Hugo for best professional artist, as well as Locus and British Fantasy awards for best artist. For The Folio Society she has illustrated Lord Dunsany’s The King of Elfland’s Daughter (1912, Folio 2025) and The Song of Achilles (2011, Folio 2024) by Madeline Miller.
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About the Illustrator
Julie Dillon is an illustrator from the Pacific Northwest, whose clients include major book publishers such as Simon & Schuster, Tor, Penguin and HarperCollins. Since graduating in fine arts from Sacramento State University in 2005 her work has won numerous awards, including a Hugo for best professional artist, as well as Locus and British Fantasy awards for best artist. For The Folio Society she has illustrated Lord Dunsany’s The King of Elfland’s Daughter (1912, Folio 2025) and The Song of Achilles (2011, Folio 2024) by Madeline Miller.
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About the Illustrator
Julie Dillon is an illustrator from the Pacific Northwest, whose clients include major book publishers such as Simon & Schuster, Tor, Penguin and HarperCollins. Since graduating in fine arts from Sacramento State University in 2005 her work has won numerous awards, including a Hugo for best professional artist, as well as Locus and British Fantasy awards for best artist. For The Folio Society she has illustrated Lord Dunsany’s The King of Elfland’s Daughter (1912, Folio 2025) and The Song of Achilles (2011, Folio 2024) by Madeline Miller.
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About the Illustrator
Julie Dillon is an illustrator from the Pacific Northwest, whose clients include major book publishers such as Simon & Schuster, Tor, Penguin and HarperCollins. Since graduating in fine arts from Sacramento State University in 2005 her work has won numerous awards, including a Hugo for best professional artist, as well as Locus and British Fantasy awards for best artist. For The Folio Society she has illustrated Lord Dunsany’s The King of Elfland’s Daughter (1912, Folio 2025) and The Song of Achilles (2011, Folio 2024) by Madeline Miller.
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Lord Dunsany
Lord Dunsany (1878–1957) was a prolific novelist, playwright and author of short stories and a pioneering figure in modern fantasy literature. Born into a wealthy Anglo-Irish aristocratic family, Dunsany studied at Eton and Sandhurst and fought in the Boer War and the First World War. He taught in Greece for a time, before settling on his estate in Kent. Dunsany was deeply involved in the Irish Literary Revival, promoting and supporting the work of his fellow writers. His best-known fictions involve imagined lands with a complex pantheon of deities – remarkable fantasy stories from a time before the genre even had a name.
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Erin Morgenstern
Erin Morgenstern is a writer and artist whose debut, The Night Circus (2011, Folio 2025), won the Locus Award for Best First Novel as well as an Alex Award from the American Library Association, and was translated into more than a dozen foreign languages; it was named by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best fantasy books of all time. Morgenstern is the author most recently of The Starless Sea (2019). She was raised in Massachusetts and studied theatre at Smith College; she now lives in the Berkshires.