The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales

Overview:

  • Title: The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales
  • Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin, Nora A. Smith
  • Year: 1909
  • Publisher: T. Werner Laurie
  • Price: 10/6
  • Pages: xii+339+[11]
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: The Story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
  • Notes:
    • 1st UK ed. Undated, library records imply (BL and OCLC, below).
    • Year and price from brief review in "Christmas Books VII: Illustrated Gift-Books Mostly for Children", Manchester Guardian 1909-12-13 p13 (enthusiastic).
    • Co-author credit as "Nora A. Smith" is from the title page of the October 1909 US ed. (see at ISFDB) with nearly-matching page count xii+339+[12], confirmed (viewed at HathiTrust). The US edition does contain 12 unnumbered interior plates not included in the pagination; no frontispiece. For this edition WorldCat record OCLC 37355841 reports 11 unnumbered leaves of plates, "full-page coloured illustrations by Maxfield Parrish".
    • Contents and page numbers are from that US ed. (viewed at HathiTrust).