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Publication: Persian Stories from the Arabian Nights

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  • Publication: Persian Stories from the Arabian NightsPublication Record # 591016
  • Author: Sir Richard F. Burton
  • Date: 1980-00-00
  • Publisher: Allen Press
  • Pages: [116]
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: COLLECTION
  • 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.
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Collection Title: Persian Stories from the Arabian Nights • [أَلْف لَيْلَة وَلَيْلَة / Arabian Nights] • collection by Sir Richard Francis Burton [as by Sir Richard F. Burton]

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