Literature: Middle East from The Owl at the Bridge

Four bookseller catalogues. Brill, Classical Antiquity, 103 pages, index; Stubbs, Scholar's Library, 83 pages, 14 illus.; Salloch (2), 61 pages, 589 items & 68 pages, 532 items. All in pictorial paper covers; all Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0264.

Two bookseller catalogues listing books on Eastern lands. Salloch, Orientalia, 72 pages, 235 items, xvi plates with 25 illustrations plus 2; Brill, Again the East, 1660 items, 26 illus. Both stapled in pictorial paper covers; both Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0263.

N.Y., Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. The original Casanova Society edition, published in London the same year, explains: "These verses have been selected from The Book of The Thousand Nights and One Night which was rendered from the literal and complete version of Dr. J. C. Mardrus; and collated from other sources by E. Powys Mathers." Hard… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: T. Y. Crowell [1918?]. "Printed in Great Britain by the Riverside Press Limited, Edinburgh." Foreword by A.E.S. This edition seems to be the American outlet for the low-priced London, Harrap, 1917, edition. Ornamented with Persian-style woodcuts. The four tipped-in color plates are reduced, pale versions of the ones by Willy Pogany for the deluxe 1909… Saber más sobre este artículo