1914-1918 Sinbad the Sailor and Other Tales From the Arabian Nights & Gulliver's Travels

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

First thus, being the first editions of these works as part of The Tales for Children from Many Lands series, with these particular illustrations.

Dated using Jisc from copies of the work held at the University of Oxford and the University of Manchester libraries.

Bound in pictorial cloth, with a coloured illustration pasted to the front cover. 

These charming tales were published as part of The Tales for Children from Many Lands series, which featured a number of children's books edited by F. C. Tilney, accompanied by illustrations from various artists, as well as bright, decorative binding. 

This particular pairing is comprised of 'Sinbad the Sailor and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights' and Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels'.

'Sinbad the Sailor' is complete with eight coloured plates, illustrated by T. H. Robinson and Dora Curtis. 'Gulliver's Travels' contains eight coloured plates by Arthur Rackham. Collated, complete.

With a remembrance stamp of 'In aid of Jack Cornwell' to the front paste down of 'Gulliver's Travels'. Jack Cornwell was a sixteen-year-old boy who was remembered for his bravery after dying at the Battle of Jutland during the First World War.