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Edmund Dulac, Laurence Housman

Stories from The Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Housman

Hodder and Stoughton

1907

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Signed first-edition illustrated copy of Housman's Stories from the Arabian Nights with numerous illustrations by Dulac.

  • Laurence Housman (English).
  • Illustrations by Edmund Dulac (Franco-British).
  • London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907.
  • Quarto.
  • [2], xvi, 133 pp.
  • Includes cover design, title page and 50 mounted color plates by Dulac.
  • Number 222 of 350 signed copies. 
  • Bound in publisher's gilt-stamped vellum, in full open-faced cloth slipcase


A lavishly illustrated version of this classic, Dulac's exotic watercolors capture perfectly the spirit of the stories of Scheherazade. “Stories from the Arabian Nights is Dulac's most important book” (Hughey).

Literature

White, Edmund Dulac, p. 200, no. 3.

Hughey 16.

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Some light soiling to tail of spine, lacking ties, light foxing to limitation leaf and printed tissue guards.

 

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First Edition

Language

English

Subject

Illustrated, Fine bindings, Art, Modern first editions, Childrens, Short Stories

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