The Nights of Straparola
The Nights of Straparola is a 1894 London collection of Italian fairy tales by Giovanni Francesco Straparola, translated by W. G. Waters and illustrated by Edward Robert Hughes, published by Lawrence and Bullen for general readers. Its plates are rotated in the scan and show crowded Renaissance-costumed interiors, a woman emerging from a carved chest, and a nude figure reclining in a dim room, rendered in soft tonal halftone that suggests painted scenes a designer could borrow for period staging, mood, or decorative framing.
