DULAC, Edmund; Retold by Laurence Houseman.
Stories From the Arabian Nights.
London: Hodder and Stoughton , 1907.
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First Edition of The Stories from the Arabian Nights; Finely Illustrated by Edmund Dulac
First edition. Thick Octavo, original cloth. Illustrated with fifty color plates, including frontispiece and tissue guards present. An excellent copy with the gilt spine and front panel bright.
"Scheherezade herself must have appeared to Edmund Dulac. In a dream, perhaps, in which she kissed his eyelids. Where else could he have learned to see the things he saw? Faraway places. Exotic peoples. The mirages of domed and minareted cities. How else could he have known the look of an Eastern paradise? The curl of the last tendril blossoming in an Arab courtyard? The tilt of a crescent moon? And he did seem to know. Whole generations saw his paintings and agreed, ‘Yes, this is what the East must be like— and dreamt of it themselves" (Rebecca Bruns, "Arabian Nights—and Art Nouveau").
Stories From the Arabian Nights.
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