Stories from The Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Housman.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907.
Price: $3,500.00
About the item
Dulac, Edmund. First edition, no. 222 of 350 signed copies. With cover design, title page, and 50 mounted color plates by Edmund Dulac. [2], xvi, 133 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Publisher's gilt-stamped vellum. Some light soiling to tail of spine, lacking ties, light foxing to limitation leaf and printed tissue guards. In full open faced cloth slipcase. White, Edmund Dulac, p. 200, no. 3; Hughey 16.
Item #267710
A lavishly illustrated version of this classic, Dulac's exotic watercolors capturing perfectly the spirit of the stories of Scheherazade. “Stories from the Arabian Nights is Dulac's most important book” (Hughey).
