Stories from the Arabian Nights / retold by Laurence Housman ; with drawings by Edmund Dulac.
Laurence Housman (1865-1959)
Category
Books
Date
1907
Materials
Place of origin
New York
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3250584
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, 133, [3] p., 50 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 8vo. Ephemera: loosely inserted postcard, 1902, printed in Japanese and French, celebrating the 25th anniversary of Japan joining the Universal Postal Union, addressed to "Master Sharp / 200 Freemason Street / Norfolk / Virginia". Provenance: Manuscript inscription on front pastedown: "Huttleston Broughton / Jan 1. 1908" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's brown cloth; gilt and dark blue decoration on upper board and spine (including picture of a lamp); gilt lettered upper board and spine.
Makers and roles
Laurence Housman (1865-1959), author Edmund Dulac (Toulouse 1882 – 1953), illustrator