LANG, Andrew (ed.).

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The Arabian Nights Entertainments. First Lang edition, number 24 of 75 large paper copies. It was issued as part of the same franchise as Lang's famous coloured Fairy Books, though only a handful were also issued in large paper versions: the first four Fairy Books, the present work, and the Blue Poetry Book.The illustrator of Lang's books, Henry Justice Ford, "concentrated on legends and folklore as subjects to illustrate and mixed carefully observed objects from the real world with fantasy creatures from an imaginary world in a very convincing way" (Houfe, p. 140).

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