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Louis Rhead (1916).
Continuing from the weekend’s book discovery, a browse at Archive.org reveals many PDF editions of the Arabian Nights. No surprise given the enduring popularity of the stories, and no surprise either that the texts are of variable quality, most of them diluted from the earthy and inventive originals to the status of the [...]

This weekend’s book purchase looks like an expensive volume but was actually pretty reasonably-priced for a book that’s 126 years old. This is no. III of a three-volume set of the Thousand and One Nights translated by Edward William Lane, published by Chatto & Windus in 1883. I bought it mainly for the copious wood [...]

Previous posts about etchings and engravings.

• The Triumph of the Phallus

• The art of Oleg Denysenko

• Nicoletto Giganti’s naked duellists

• Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales

• Jan Saenredam’s whale

• Digital alchemy

• Oeuvres D’Architecture by Jean Le Pautre

• Gramato-graphices

• Edward William Lane’s Arabian Nights Entertainments

• John Bickham’s Fables and other short poems

• Battle of the Naked [...]

Previous posts about illustrators.

• Dalí in Wonderland

• The Evil Orchid Bookplate Contest

• Der Orchideengarten illustrated

• Equus and the Executionist

• Mervyn Peake at Maison d’Ailleurs

• Charles Robinson’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

• The art of Raphaël Freida

• The art of Bertha Lum, 1869–1954

• The art of George Barbier, 1882–1932

• The art of Warwick Goble, 1862–1943

• Steinlen’s cats

• [...]