The Arabian Nights, Tales from the Thousand and One Night

by E. J. Detmold

$650 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Publisher's cream cloth, front cover and spine pictorial gilt stamped First Detmold edition of The Arabian Nights, one of Hodder and Stoughton’s finely produced illustrated gift books of the 1920s, with twelve mounted colour plates by Edward Julius Detmold. Detmold's illustrations bring the medieval Arabic and Persian story cycle into the language of early twentieth-century book illustration, combining decorative pattern, jewel-like colour, and close

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