Various — Tales from the Arabian Nights

London, Ward, Lock and Co. Limited, 1920. Cloth. A smart copy of this brightly illustrated collection of Middle Eastern folktales, designed for younger readers. Illustrated with forty-eight colour plates. Collated complete. A collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age. Originally collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, and North Africa. This collection includes: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Sinbad the Sailor, Aladdin or the Wonderful Lamp, and more. Illustrated by A. E. Jackson, a British artist, illustrator, and writer best known for his works on some editions of the works of Lewis Carroll. Dated from the British Library. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small split in the cloth to the board edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light age toning to the endpapers and a contemporary ink inscription to the half-title. Very Good . Ill.: A. E. Jackson. Very Good .