Author: Laurence Housman
Title: Stores from the Arabian Nights
Description: London, Hodder and Stoughton Limited for Boots Pure Drug Co, 1923. Cloth. Edmund Dulac's beautifully illustrated edition of 'Arabian Nights', a colourful edition of the popular classic tales, a lovely copy of this work. In the original unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and nineteen colour plates by Edmund Dulac.Collated, complete.Dulac was a noted illustrator in the twentieth century, a popular illustrator who designed banknotes and postage stamps during World War II.'Arabian Nights', or 'One Thousand and One Nights', is a collection of folk tales from the Middle East. It was collected over centuries, with the roots of the tales being traced from Greek, Indian, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Jewish folklore.The tales are being told by Scheherazade to the King Shahryar, in a bid to save her life. After discovering his wife was cheating on him, he killed her, and vowed to marry a new virgin every day, and then behead them the next. In this vein, he had killed one-thousand and one women before marrying Scheherazade. Scheherazade entices the King by telling him a story on their first night together, pausing halfway through as the sun came up. The King, being absorbed by the story, keeps Scheherazade alive, eager to hear more from her.Retold by Laurence Housman.Undated, dated 1923 from Jisc from a copy held at the University of Oxford Libraries.Bookplate of Stella Rogers to the recto of the front endpaper. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine, with very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. A few spots to the fore edge. Bookplate to the recto of the front endpaper. Dust wrapper is edge worn, with a chip to the head of the spine. Spots to the wraps, including to the reverse. Spine is sunned. A little light rubbing to the joints. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with a few scattered spots to the first and last few pages. Near Fine . Ill.: Edmund Dulac. Near Fine/Very Good.
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Title: Stores from the Arabian Nights
Description: London, Hodder and Stoughton Limited for Boots Pure Drug Co, 1923. Cloth. Edmund Dulac's beautifully illustrated edition of 'Arabian Nights', a colourful edition of the popular classic tales, a lovely copy of this work. In the original unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and nineteen colour plates by Edmund Dulac.Collated, complete.Dulac was a noted illustrator in the twentieth century, a popular illustrator who designed banknotes and postage stamps during World War II.'Arabian Nights', or 'One Thousand and One Nights', is a collection of folk tales from the Middle East. It was collected over centuries, with the roots of the tales being traced from Greek, Indian, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Jewish folklore.The tales are being told by Scheherazade to the King Shahryar, in a bid to save her life. After discovering his wife was cheating on him, he killed her, and vowed to marry a new virgin every day, and then behead them the next. In this vein, he had killed one-thousand and one women before marrying Scheherazade. Scheherazade entices the King by telling him a story on their first night together, pausing halfway through as the sun came up. The King, being absorbed by the story, keeps Scheherazade alive, eager to hear more from her.Retold by Laurence Housman.Undated, dated 1923 from Jisc from a copy held at the University of Oxford Libraries.Bookplate of Stella Rogers to the recto of the front endpaper. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine, with very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. A few spots to the fore edge. Bookplate to the recto of the front endpaper. Dust wrapper is edge worn, with a chip to the head of the spine. Spots to the wraps, including to the reverse. Spine is sunned. A little light rubbing to the joints. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with a few scattered spots to the first and last few pages. Near Fine . Ill.: Edmund Dulac. Near Fine/Very Good.
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Price: GBP 395.00 = appr. US$ 564.05 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 909P53
- Book number: 909P53
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