Persian Stories from the Arabian Nights
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Overview:
- Title: Persian Stories from the Arabian Nights
- Author: Sir Richard F. Burton
- Year: 1980
- Publisher: Allen Press
- Pages: [116]
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: Persian Stories from the Arabian Nights
- Notes:
- 1 portfolio; 3 volumes. 12½x8¼ WorldCat: "Edition limited to one hundred forty copies"--Vol. 1, p. [5]. "The all-rag paper was handmade & watermarked especially for the Allen Press at St. Cuthberts Mill in England, and printed damp on a Columbian handpress made in 1846. The green all-rag cover-paper is from the noted Montgolfier Canson Mill in France ... Hand-printed by Lewis and Dorothy Allen ... Calligraphic art by Victor Seward. Boxes by Cardoza-James Binding Company"--Vol. 1, p. [5]. "Binding is in the tradition of the French édition de luxe: the sheets are unsewn and sections gathered in three [numbered and titled green] folders ... these are contained in a hinged box covered with a [blue] silk-like fabric imported from Paris for this edition"--Publisher's announcement.
- The image shown is of the book itself. For an image of the containing box, see Here.
- 7 full-column pen-and-ink drawings in Islamic style by Michèle Forgeois (official artist of the French government).
- Two columns per page; text printed in blue; Arabic script in green between columns; titling in orange; Persian calligraphic symbols on title-pages and covers stamped in gold.
- Text in Arrighi type-face selected to harmonize with the Persian calligraphy.
- Data from PBA Galleries and from WorldCat.
