The Quest of the Four-Leaved Clover: A Story of Arabia

Overview:

  • Title: The Quest of the Four-Leaved Clover: A Story of Arabia
  • Author: Édouard René Lefèvre de Laboulaye
  • Year: 1910
  • Publisher: Ginn and Company
  • Pages: ix+211
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Quest of the Four-Leaved Clover: A Story of Arabia
  • Notes:
    • Artist Charles Copeland not credited; identified by comparison of full-page b/w drawings, signed almost legibly "Copeland" or "C? Copeland" (best, p96), with signatures (eg, p9) in his credited edition of Gulliver's Travels (Ginn, 1914). Both eds. viewed at HathiTrust.
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original cover and illustrated endpapers -- title page illustrated, undated, states (four lines, quote):   Adapted from the French of Laboulaye's // "Abdallah"   by // Walter Taylor Field -- copyright: (c) 1910 by Field; identifies The Atheneum Press, Ginn and Company, Proprietors -- Introduction, p.iii-v, closes "W. T. F."; "Chicago, Illinois" -- "Full-Page Illustrations", ix, lists 5 (b/w drawings included in the pagination, numbered) -- novel spans p1-209 -- "Pronouncing Vocabulary", p211 Illustrations include some head- or tailpieces. Illustrations not credited. Text contains some footnotes (by hasty count 7 in three chapters, p1-24).