Author: Jean-François de La Harpe; Sir Frank Swettenham [trans.]
Title: Three Gifts: An Arab Love Story
Description: London, John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1928. Cloth. A colourfully illustrated limited edition of the English prose translation of de la Harpe's narrative poem. No. 20 of 1500 limited edition copies of this work in a quarter cloth binding with marbled paper boards. Top edge gilt.Sir Frank Swettenham's English prose translation of the poem Tangu et Félime by Jean-François de La Harpe. This narrative poem, a romance in the style of the Thousand and One Nights, was originally written in French and published in Paris in 1780.Illustrated with five hand-coloured illustrations by Marillier, reproduced from the second edition of de la Harpe's original poem. In a quarter cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with light soiling to the cloth. Lacking the majority of the spine label, with one small remnant. Slightly strained between pages 32 and 33, but otherwise, internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for offsetting to the end papers. Very Good . Ill.: Marillier. Very Good .

Keywords: Three Gifts de la Harpe Marillier Poem de la Harpe Marillier


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