Stories from the Arabian Nights
Stories from the Arabian Nights
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Title: Stories from the Arabian Nights
Author: Housman, Lawrence
Publication: London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, [after 1907?].
Description: Selected stories from the Arabian Nights, illustrated throughout by Edmund Dulac. Undated, later issue. 50 mounted color plates by Dulac, with captioned tissue guards. Bound in full terracotta cloth over boards, stamped in gilt and black. 11 x 8.75 inches; xvi, 132, [2] pages, [50] leaves of plates. Binding with moderate edgewear, deep abrasions in one area of the rear cover, and foxed endpapers, else a clean interior, complete with all 50 plates. Very Good-. Contents: The fisherman and the genie. -- The story of the king of the Ebony Isles. -- Ali Baba and the forty thieves. -- The story of the magic horse. -- The story of the wicked half-brothers. -- The story of the princess of Deryabar.


