The Arabian Nights. Tales from the Thousand and One Nights.

£1,000 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A fine and notably bright copy of wonderful illustrated collection of nine stories from One Thousand and One Nights, including Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Sinbad the Sailor, and Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. The illustrator, Edward Julius Detmold (1883-1957), was one of the most important English book illustrators of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, best-known for his collaborations with his twin brother Charles Maurice Detmold. A fine copy, spotting to outer leaves and edges of text-block but otherwise generally clean and fresh internally, the cloth remains bright and virtually unworn.

• Binding: Hardcover

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