Stories From the Arabian Nights (Hodder and Stoughton, circa 1920s) illustrated by Edmund Dulac
Stories from The Arabian Nights
retold by Laurence Housman, with drawings by Edmund Dulac
Hodder and Stoughton, [No Date] circa 1920s
This edition not in Hughey*. Contains twenty-eight tipped-in colour plates by Edmund Dulac – consisting eighteen plates for Arabian Nights, four for Sinbad, and six for Aladdin.
Hardback – publisher’s blue cloth with titles in black to spine and front board, blind design in red and black to front, decorated endpapers. 251pp plus 28 colour plates. 9.5 x 6.5 inches approx. (238mm x 166mm).
For reference: Made and Printed in Great Britain by C. Tinling & Co., Ltd. Liverpool, London and Prescot [title page verso].
Cloth a little rubbed and worn to extremities; spine a little darkened and stained; a small splash mark to upper corner of front board. Wrinkle to front paste-down that has left an impression to first few pages; some heavy foxing throughout though mainly to endpapers and first/last few pages, generally clean in the main body; edges of page-block dusty and spotted.
Nonetheless, remaining a reasonably nice copy – presents well.
[SOLD]
*ref. [16] Ann Conolly Hughey, Edmund Dulac – His Book Illustrations: A Bibliography (Buttonwood Press, 1995).
