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cmonbartender · 8 months

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The Story of the Young King of the Black Isles (1907) - Edmund Dulac

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archivist-dragonfly · 27 days

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Book 495

Arabian Nights: Stories Told by Scheherazade

Retold by Laurence Housman / illustrated by Edmund Dulac

Abaris Books, Inc. 1981

Featuring seven stories from Arabian Nights, including “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves” and “Aladdin and the Magic Lamp,” this book was originally published in 1907 by Hodder & Stoughton. And, again, like the last book, this book suffers from mediocre reproductions that tend to be muddy and a bit thin, but it stays until a replacement can be procured.

The thing about Dulac, though, is the life he breathes into his characters: the funny little expression on the face of a servant, the anger on the face of an enchantress, the laughter of a group of courtiers, a princess gazing into a mirror, the stately grace of an honorable woman. Certainly, the occasional racist caricature is unavoidable and cultural inaccuracies abound, but it’s the life in Dulac’s figures that one remembers—the same life that populates all of his books, whether French fairy tales, Shakespeare, Treasure Island, or Poe.

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siryl · 4 years

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Illustration by Edmund Dulac for Stories from the Arabian Nights retold by Laurence Housman.

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eclectic2017 · 5 years

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Illustrations by Edmund Dulac taken from ‘Stories from the Arabian Nights’ - retold by Laurence Housman.

Published 1911 by Hodder and Stoughton.

New York Public Library

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heaveninawildflower · 6 years

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Illustrations by Edmund Dulac taken from ‘Stories from the Arabian Nights’ - retold by Laurence Housman.

Published 1911 by Hodder and Stoughton.

New York Public Library

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#Edmund Dulac #children's books #children's illustration #books #early 20th century books

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xphaiea · 7 years

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Stories from the Arabian nights retold by Laurence Housman; with drawings by Edmund Dulac (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907)

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ericrobertnolan · 7 years

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“Then, for the last figure of all, she drew out the dagger.” Illustration from "Stories from the Arabian Nights, Retold by Laurence Housman; with Drawings by Edmund Dulac," 1907.

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adelphe · 7 years

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