1923 Stories from the Arabian Nights
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Description
Colour Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
Housman edition, published by Hodder and Stoughton for Boots Pure Drug Co.
In the publisher's very scarce original unclipped dust wrapper.
Illustrated with a tipped-in colour frontispiece and nineteen other colour plates, all by Edmund Dulac (1882-1953). Dulac was a French British illustrator who first started producing relief books during World War I. He also designed the postage stamps that heralded the beginning of Queen Elizabeth II's reign.
This is a wonderfully illustrated edition of 'Stories from the Arabian Nights', also known as 'One Thousand and One Nights'. This collection of Middle Eastern folk tales was first compiled in the Islamic Golden Age, and gained popularity in the western world. This work tells the story of a vizier's daughter who weaves dramatic tales for a Sasanian king so that he won't have her executed.
The tales that she recounts include 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves', 'Sinbad the Sailor', and 'Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp'.
Laurence Housman (1865-1959) was an English playwright and illustrator during the Victorian era. He gained significant literary success from works such as 'An Englishwoman's Love-Letters' and 'Victoria Regina'. Housman also contributed to the Suffrage movement in England by creating banners and propaganda through the 'Suffrage Atelier', which he founded, and writing in women's newspapers.
Collated, complete.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with just a bit of light bumping to extremities and to the spine. Spots to text block. Spots to paste downs and endpapers. Dust wrapper is very smart, with minimal edge wear and a bit of fading and wear to the spine region. A few marks to wraps. Tape repair to the rear wraps. Edgewear and closed tears to wraps have been repaired with tape to the reverse, with tape repairs along the top and bottom edges of wraps, as well as fly leaves. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean throughout, with light age-toning to the margins and light spots to the first and last few pages. Plates are bright and clean.
Very Good Indeed
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