Title: Persian Stories from the Arabian Nights
Author: Burton, Sir Richard, translator
Description: Introduction by Dr. Francis Carmody. With 7 full-column pen-and-ink drawings in Islamic style by Michèle Forgeois (official artist of the French government). Text in Arrighi type-face selected to harmonize with the Persian calligraphy. 12½x8¼, original unsewn sheets with sections gathered in 3 green folders from France, housed together in blue silk-like covered drop-back box with green paper cover label. 1 of 140 copies printed on hand-made paper by the Allen Press.Prospectus, laid in. Allen Press Biblio. 45.
Heading: (Allen Press)Place Published: Greenbrae, CA
Publisher: Allen Press
Date Published: 1980
Author: Burton, Sir Richard, translator
Description: Introduction by Dr. Francis Carmody. With 7 full-column pen-and-ink drawings in Islamic style by Michèle Forgeois (official artist of the French government). Text in Arrighi type-face selected to harmonize with the Persian calligraphy. 12½x8¼, original unsewn sheets with sections gathered in 3 green folders from France, housed together in blue silk-like covered drop-back box with green paper cover label. 1 of 140 copies printed on hand-made paper by the Allen Press.Prospectus, laid in. Allen Press Biblio. 45.
Heading: (Allen Press)Place Published: Greenbrae, CA
Publisher: Allen Press
Date Published: 1980
Condition report
Box edges sunned; volumes fine, box near fine.
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Collection of Fine California Press Books
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