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Sinbad the sailor & other stories from the Arabian nights

Dulac, Edmund, 1882-1953, ill · 1914 · [London] : Hodder & Stoughton · 29 pictures

An illustrated edition of Arabian Nights tales, Sinbad the Sailor and other stories, illustrated by Edmund Dulac and published in London by Hodder & Stoughton in 1914 for a general readership of fairy tale collectors. The pictures are stylised colour plates with flat decorative patterning, jewel-toned silks, gilded architecture and dark night skies, offering a designer a model for ornamental borders, exotic costume palettes and layered tonal backgrounds.

Fairy tales · Folklore -- Arabian Peninsula

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