Paradise and the Peri

by Thomas Moore, Owen Jones, Henry Warren

$500 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

London: Day & Son, 1860. Owen Jones, Henry Warren, Albert Warren. Leather. This is the spectacularly illustrated and sumptuously produced 1860 edition of Irish poet Thomas Moore’s popular tale from his 1817 “oriental romance” epic Lalla Rookh. The edition was designed and illuminated by pioneering Welsh architect, designer, design theorist, and, last but not least, book artist, Owen Jones 1809-1874 .

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