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anon: : THE ARABIAN NIGHTS: TALES FROM THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS - illus by E.J. Detmold

LONDON.THE FOLIO SOCIETY,2001.

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UK,Qrto HB+s/case,4th print.[First published,with this illustrator,by Hodder & Stoughton,November 1924,in their Hodder Gift Book series; in a De-Luxe,Signed,limited edn (100 copies only) and a trade edn at 63/- and 20/- respectively (then). This edn,London,Folio Society,originally 1999,and this copy is the 4th print,2001.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,near immaculate plain red paper-covered slipcase; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners.Immaculate,bright,clean and unblemished,UK,Qrto HB,cream-white cloth boards with gilt,pictorial decorated upper board+spine/ backstrip.Pictorial design showing elephants and camels leaving the city gates,the sun shining over distant mountains similar to the 1924 edn,this illustration however,has been redrawn by David Eccles after the original design by E. J. Detmold.Top+fore-edges bright,clean and near pristine; contents bright,tight and in similar state - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? A really superb copy in an immaculate condition and state - almost as new. Typeset in Monotype Scotch Roman,printed on Caxton Wove paper,at the St Edmundsbury Press,Bury St. Edmunds,and bound in full cloth at Hunter & Foulis,Edinburgh.UK,Qrto HB,viiipp+ 2-239pp [paginated] includes 12 full-colour, full-page illustrations - frntis included - all by E.J. Detmold and all called for (present),9 stories.Stories comprise: History of Codadad and his brothers and Princess Deryabar,Ali Baba+the forty thieves,Sinbad the Sailor,Prince Assad and the Fairy Perie Nashara,Aladdin,The Three Calendars,King of the Ebony Isles,Story of Baba Abdalla and the Story of Ganem,the slave of love.A really,exceptional copy/edn,in a like state/condition. His rarest book and widely considered as his last magnus opus,his change of style and mood away from natural history,moved him steadily into the realms of exotic fantasy and imagination.On the strength of 'The Arabian Nights' alone,Edward could have become one of the greatest illustrators of fantasy and fairy stories. He took such great care and so much time to complete a set of colour plates for Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales,with an overflowing schedule with artists,already having published Dulac,Heath Robinson and K.Nielsen in turn,for these same stories, Hodder could not use these charming illustrations,and they remain unpublished to this day. The Detmold twins,worked as Maurice and Julius Detmold,1883-1908,and 1883-1957. Born in Putney,21st November,1883,being christened Charles Frederick and Edward Barton Detmold.The two middle names were soon dropped and replaced by 'Maurice' and 'Julius' respectively.The younger twin, Edward took his first names not from his father,but from the enigmatic Dr Edward Barton Shuldham,described as occupier of the house in Upper Richmond Road where the twins were born and were privately educated.They studied animal life in the Zoological Gardens and worked in close association,painting,drawing and etching bird and animal subjects.They collaborated on several books before Charles Maurice ended his life by inhaling chloroform in 1908.[The brothers were in April,1908, about to leave for a holiday in Sussex with Dr Shuldham,who had asked Maurice to put down the household cats with chloroform.Not an unusual practice at that time: as the cats would be replaced on the return from the holiday.) Edward Julius went on to become one of the most interesting of the gift book illustrators, specialising in animals and plants,which were drawn with exactitude and sympathy, and often placed in fantastic architectural or landscape settings.In its delicacy of outline and subtle colour harmonies,his work shows the influence of of oriental miniature painting.In the early 1920's he retired to Montgomeryshire,with his widowed sister, continuing to draw,paint,hold exhibitions of etchings and drypoints,but it wasn't long before he retired completely from public life,and eventually committed suicide himself,on 1st July 1957.Both brothers were elected ARE (1905),but resigned a few months later. View my 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die catalogue for other books and suggested reading in it. 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UK,Qrto HB+s/case,4th print.
Not SIGNED.

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