[WIGGIN, Kate Douglas; SMITH, Nora A. (editors)]. The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, MCMIX [1909].
FIRST EDITION THUS. Leather-bound; hardcover; quarto (23.5 x 17.5 x 3.5 cm); pp. xii, 339, [1] publisher's advertisements. English text with illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. Stunningly bound for Asprey in full dark blue crushed morocco gilt; all page edges gilt; marbled endpapers; half-title; decorative title-page; with 9 colour plates. Condition: FINE. An immaculate copy. Scarce thus.
Notes: A wonderful collection of ten famous tales from the One Thousand and One Nights (or Arabian Nights), including: The Stories of Aladdin, The Stories of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, The Stories of Sinbad the Voyager, The Stories of Gulnare of the Sea etc., with a Preface by Editor Kate Douglas Wiggin and 9 marvellous full-colour, full-page glossy illustrations by Maxfield Parrish throughout the text. Beautifully presented in this elaborately gilt ruled and tooled binding produced for Asprey (probably by Bayntun Riviere), signed on the rear turn-in.
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