2009 The Arabian Nights: Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, With Slipcase

The thirteenth printing of the Folio Society facsimile edition of this work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding.

Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and eleven further colour plates, reproduced from the original watercolours. Collated, complete.

This illustrated English language edition of The Arabian Nights was first published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1924, and contains some of the best-known tales from The Thousand and One Nights, a famous collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled during the Islamic Golden Age. It includes colour reproductions of the exquisite watercolour paintings by the talented book illustrator Edward Julius Detmold (1883-1957).

This edition includes the following tales: 'The History of Codadad and his Brothers and of the Princess Deryabar'; 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves'; 'Sindbad the Sailor'; 'Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp'; 'The Three Calenders'; 'The Story of the King of the Ebony Isles'; 'The Story of Baba Abdalla'; 'The Story of Ganem, the Slave of Love'.